While we are on the subject of work I just 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 hardest I been down and I been out I been disgusted I been and I couldn't be trusted I worked my way up and I my way down I been and I been 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 outta Woke up a lot of mornin's, know where I was at The hardest I ever done was, when I was tryin' To get myself a worried woman to help ease my worried
I'm gonna tell ya how much work I had to do To get this woman I was tellin' you about, I hands With ninety seven of her kinfolk and her relatives And I just the same with eighty six people Who's just her friends and her
I kissed seventy three babies and put dry On thirty four of em', well as others this same thing several times Well are a lot of other things just like this I held one hundred five wild horses And put saddles and bridles on more than
Harnessed some of the craziest and wildest teams in whole country' I rode fourteen loco broncos to a still And I let forty two hound dogs lick me all over times I's bit by hungry dogs and I was chewed all to My water moccasins and on two river bottoms
I chopped and carried hundred fourteen arm loads Of stove wood, one nine buckets of coal Carried a gallon of kerosene eighteen over the mountains Got lost, lost a good of shoes in a mud hole And I chopped and weeded forty eight rows of short
acres of bad corn, I cut the sticker weeds Out of eleven back yards, all on of 'cause I wanted to show her I was a man and I liked to work I cleaned out nine lofts, cranked thirty one cars All makes and models, pulled three cars out of mud And four or out of snow drifts
I dug cisterns of water for some of her friends Run all kinds of errands, played the for nine Church I Joined eleven separate denominations I joined up and signed up with seven trade unions I could find, I paid my wages, a, six months in advance
I forty eight miles of swamps and six big rivers Walked two ranges of mountains three deserts, I got the fever, sun stroke, Malaria, blue Moonstruck, bit, poison ivy and the seven year itch And the blind staggers, I was up for less, lost and dead
A couple of times struck by lightning, by Congress by friends 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 here Now to study up what else I can do to show that women That I ain't afraid of hard work