While we are on the subject of hard 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 there by hard
Work of the hardest kind I down and I been out I been I been busted and I couldn't be trusted I worked my way up and I my way down I been drunk and I been sober, I been and got hijacked I been robbed for and I been robbed on a credit
my way in jail and I worked my way outta jail 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 woman to help ease my worried mind
I'm tell ya just how much work I had to do To get this woman I was tellin' you about, I shook With ninety seven of her kinfolk and her relatives And I done just the same eighty six people 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 several Well are a lot of other things just like this I held one hundred twenty five wild And put saddles and bridles on more that
Harnessed some of the craziest and teams in that whole country' I rode fourteen loco to a stand still And I let two hound dogs 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 river
I chopped and carried hundred fourteen arm loads Of stove wood, one hundred nine 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 cotton
Thirteen acres of bad corn, I cut the weeds Out of eleven back yards, all on of 'cause I to show her that I was a man and I liked to work I cleaned out nine lofts, cranked thirty one cars All makes and models, pulled three 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 for nine meetin's I Joined eleven separate denominations I joined up and signed up with best trade unions I could find, I paid my wages, a, dues six in advance
I waded forty miles of swamps and six big rivers across two ranges of mountains Crossed three deserts, I got the fever, sun stroke, Malaria, Moonstruck, skeeter bit, poison ivy and the seven year And the blind staggers, I was give up for less, lost and
A couple of times struck by lightning, struck by by friends and kinfolks eell as by three cars on highways A lot of times in people's hen houses, I been hit and run Run over and on knocked around, I'm just sittin' here Now tryin' to up what else I can do to show that women That I still ain't afraid of work