While we are on the subject of hard I just to say you that, "I always was a man who likes hard work" I was born working and I worked my way up by work I ain't ever got no where, but I got there by work
Work of the hardest kind I been down and I out I been disgusted I been and I couldn't be trusted I worked my way up and I my way down I been drunk and I been sober, I baptized and got hijacked I been for cash and I been robbed on a credit
Worked my way in and I worked my way outta jail Woke up a lot of mornin's, didn't know I was at The hardest work I ever done was, I was tryin' To get myself a worried woman to ease my worried mind
I'm tell ya just how much work I had to do To get this woman I was you about, I shook hands With ninety of her kinfolk and her blood relatives And I done just the same with eighty six Who's just her friends and her
I seventy three babies and put dry pants On four of em', well as others done this same thing several times Well there are a lot of other things just like I held one hundred twenty five wild And put and bridles on more than that
Harnessed some of the craziest and teams in that whole country' I fourteen loco broncos to a stand still And I let forty two hound dogs lick me all over seven I's bit by hungry dogs and I was all to pieces My moccasins and rattlesnakes on two river bottoms
I chopped and three hundred fourteen arm loads Of stove wood, one hundred nine buckets of Carried a gallon of kerosene eighteen miles the mountains Got lost, lost a good pair of shoes in a mud And I chopped and weeded forty eight rows of short
acres of bad corn, I cut the sticker weeds Out of back yards, all on account of 'cause I wanted to her that I was a man and I liked to work I cleaned out barn lofts, cranked thirty one cars All makes and models, three cars out of mud holes And four or five out of snow
I dug five cisterns of for some of her friends Run all kinds of errands, played the fiddle for Church meetin's I Joined separate denominations I up and signed up with seven best trade unions I could find, I paid my wages, a, dues six in advance
I forty eight miles of swamps and six big rivers Walked across two of mountains Crossed three deserts, I got the fever, sun stroke, Malaria, Moonstruck, skeeter bit, poison ivy and the seven itch And the blind staggers, I was up for less, lost and dead
A of times struck by lightning, struck by Congress by friends and kinfolks eell as by three cars on highways A lot of times in hen houses, I been hit and run down Run and walked on knocked around, I'm just sittin' here Now tryin' to study up what else I can do to that women That I ain't afraid of hard work