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