Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and music by Woody

While we're on the subject of work, I just wanted
to say that I was a man to work.

I was born and I worked my way up by hard
work. I ain't never got nowhere yet but I got by
work.

Work of the hardest kind. I down and I been out
and I've been busted, disgusted and be trusted.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And I chopped and I 48 rows of short cotton,
13 of bad corn and cut the sticker weeds out of
11 back yards, all on account a 'cause I to
show her I was a man and I liked to work

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

I dug 5 cisterns of for some of her friends and
and run all kinds of errands.

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

I got the and I got the sun stroke and I got the
and I got the flu and I got moonstruck and
skeeter bit, the poison ivy and the 7 itch and the
staggers.

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

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