Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and music by Woody

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

I was born working and I worked my way up by
work. I never got nowhere yet but I got there by
work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I held 125 head of wild horses, put saddles and
on more than that, harnessed of the craziest,
wildest in the whole country. I rode 14 loco
broncos to a standstill and let 42 hound dogs 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 and I carried 314 arm loads of stoved
100 buckets of coal, and I carried a gallon of
kerosene 18 miles and lost a pair of shoes in a
mud hole.

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

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

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

I played the fiddle for 9 church meetings and I
11 separate denominations. I signed up and
up for 7 of the best trade I could find and paid
my dues about 6 ahead of time, waded 40
miles of swamps, 60 big rivers, across 2
mountain ranges and 3 deserts.

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

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

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