While we are on the of hard work 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 hard
Work of the hardest kind I 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 and I been sober, I been baptized and got hijacked I been robbed for and I been robbed on a credit
Worked my way in and I worked my way outta 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 help ease my mind
I'm gonna tell ya how much work I had to do To get this woman I was tellin' you about, I shook With ninety of her kinfolk and her blood relatives And I just the same with eighty six people Who's just her friends and her
I kissed seventy babies and put dry pants On thirty four of em', as others done this same thing several times Well there are a lot of other things just this I one hundred twenty five wild horses And put saddles and bridles on more that
some of the craziest and wildest teams in that whole country' I rode fourteen broncos to a stand still And I let forty two hound dogs lick me all over times I's bit by hungry and I was chewed 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 of coal Carried a gallon of kerosene eighteen miles the mountains Got lost, lost a good pair of shoes in a mud And I and weeded forty eight 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 show her that I was a man and I liked to I cleaned out nine barn lofts, thirty one cars All makes and models, three cars out of mud holes And four or out of snow drifts
I dug cisterns of water for some of her friends Run all kinds of errands, the fiddle for nine Church meetin's I Joined 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 eight miles of swamps and six big rivers Walked across two ranges of three deserts, I got the fever, sun stroke, Malaria, blue Moonstruck, skeeter bit, ivy and the seven year itch And the blind staggers, I was give up for less, lost and
A of times struck by lightning, struck 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 around, I'm just sittin' here Now tryin' to study up what else I can do to that women I still ain't afraid of hard work