Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and by Woody Guthrie

While on the subject of hard work, I just wanted
to say I always was a man to work.

I was working and I worked my way up by hard
work. I ain't got nowhere yet but I got there by
work.

Work of the kind. I been down and I been out
and I've been busted, and couldn't be trusted.

I worked my way up and I worked my way down.
been and I've been sober. I've had hard times
and I got and been robbed for cash and robbed
on credit.

Worked my way into and outta jail and I woke up
a lotta mornings and I didn't even where I was at.

But the hardest work I ever done is I was trying
to get myself a worried woman to my worried
mind.

Now I'm gonna tell you just about how much
I had to do to get this here woman that I'm a-tellin'
you about.

I hands with 97 of her kinfolks and her blood
relatives and I done the same with 86 people was
her friends and her neighbors.

Kissed 73 babies and put dry on 34 of 'em, as well
as others, and the When thing several times, as well
as a lot of other things just like this.

I 125 head of wild horses, put saddles and bridles
on more than that, some of the craziest,
wildest in the whole country. I rode 14 loco
broncos to a dead standstill and let 42 dogs lick
me all over.

7 times I was bit by dogs and I was chewed
all to by water moccasins and rattlesnakes on
2 separate bottoms.

I chopped and I carried 314 arm loads of
wood; 100 of coal, and I carried a gallon of
kerosene 18 miles and lost a pair of shoes in a
mud hole.

And I chopped and I weeded 48 of short cotton,
13 acres of bad corn and cut the weeds out of
11 back yards, all on a 'cause I wanted to
her that I was a man and I liked to work

I out 9 barnloads, and cranked 31 automobiles,
all makes and models, pulled 3 out of mud
and 4 out of snowdrifts.

I dug 5 cisterns of water for of her friends and
neighbors and run all of errands.

I played the fiddle for 9 church meetings and I
11 separate denominations. I up and joined
up for 7 of the best unions I could find and paid
my dues 6 weeks ahead of time, waded 40
miles of swamps, 60 big rivers, walked 2
mountain and crossed 3 deserts.

I got the fever and I got the sun and I got the
and I got the flu and I got moonstruck and
skeeter bit, the poison ivy and the 7 year and the
staggers.

I was given up for lost and about 2 dozen times.
Struck by lightning, struck by Congress,
by friends and kinfolks, as well as by 3 on
the highways and a times in peoples'
henhouses.

I been hit and run and run over and
on and knocked around and I'm just
settin' here now trying to up what else I
can do to show that that I still ain't afraid
of work.