While we are on the of hard work I wanted to say you that, "I always was a man who likes hard work" I was working and I worked my way up by hard work I ain't ever got no where, but I got by hard work
Work of the kind I been down and I been out I been disgusted I been busted and I be trusted I worked my way up and I my way down I been drunk and I sober, I been baptized and got hijacked I been for cash and I been robbed on a credit
Worked my way in jail and I worked my way jail up a lot of mornin's, didn't know where I was at The hardest work I done was, when I was tryin' To get myself a worried woman to ease my worried mind
I'm gonna tell ya just how much I had to do To get this I was tellin' you about, I shook hands With ninety seven of her kinfolk and her relatives And I just the same with eighty six people Who's just her and her neighbors
I kissed seventy three and put dry pants On thirty four of em', well as others this same thing several times Well there are a lot of things just like this I held one hundred twenty five horses And put saddles and bridles on than that
Harnessed some of the craziest and wildest teams in that country' I rode fourteen loco to a stand still And I let forty two hound dogs lick me all over times I's bit by hungry dogs and I was all to pieces My water moccasins and rattlesnakes on two river
I chopped and carried hundred fourteen arm loads Of stove wood, one nine buckets of coal Carried a of kerosene eighteen miles over the mountains Got lost, lost a good 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 back yards, all on account of 'cause I wanted to show her that I was a man and I to work I out nine barn lofts, cranked thirty one cars All makes and models, pulled 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, the fiddle for nine Church meetin's I eleven separate denominations I joined up and up with seven best trade unions I could find, I my wages, a, dues six months in advance
I waded forty eight of swamps and six big rivers across 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 give up for less, and dead
A couple of times struck by lightning, struck by Struck by friends and eell as by three cars on highways A lot of times in people's hen houses, I been hit and run Run over and walked on knocked around, I'm just sittin' Now tryin' to up what else I can do to show that women That I ain't afraid of hard work