While we are on the subject of hard I just wanted to say you that, "I always was a man who hard work" I was working and I worked my way up by hard work I ain't got no where, but I got there by hard work
of the hardest kind I been down and I been out I been disgusted I been busted and I couldn't be I my way up and I worked my way down I been drunk and I been sober, I been and got hijacked I robbed for cash and I been robbed on a credit
Worked my way in jail and I worked my way jail Woke up a lot of mornin's, didn't know I was at The hardest work I ever done was, when I was 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 woman I was tellin' you about, I shook With ninety seven of her and her blood relatives And I done just the same eighty six people Who's just her and her neighbors
I kissed seventy three 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 horses And put saddles and bridles on than that
some of the craziest and wildest teams in that whole country' I rode fourteen loco broncos to a stand And I let forty two hound lick me all over seven times I's bit by hungry dogs and I was all to pieces My water moccasins and rattlesnakes on two bottoms
I chopped and carried three fourteen arm loads Of stove wood, one hundred buckets of coal Carried a gallon of kerosene miles over the mountains Got lost, lost a good of shoes in a mud hole And I chopped and forty eight rows of short cotton
Thirteen of bad corn, I cut the sticker weeds Out of back yards, all on account of 'cause I wanted to show her I was a man and I liked to work I cleaned out nine barn lofts, 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 water for of her friends Run all kinds of errands, played the fiddle for meetin's I Joined eleven separate denominations I joined up and signed up with seven trade unions I could find, I paid my wages, a, dues six in advance
I waded forty eight of swamps and six big rivers Walked two ranges of mountains three deserts, I got the fever, sun stroke, Malaria, blue Moonstruck, skeeter bit, poison ivy and the seven year And the staggers, I was give up for less, lost and dead
A couple of times by lightning, struck by Congress Struck by friends and kinfolks eell as by three cars on A lot of in people's hen houses, I been hit and run down Run over and walked on knocked around, I'm sittin' here Now tryin' to study up else I can do to show that women I still ain't afraid of hard work