Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and by Woody Guthrie

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

I was born working and I worked my way up by
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 busted, disgusted and couldn't be trusted.

I worked my way up and I my way down. I've
drunk and I've been 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 and I didn't even know where I was at.

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

Now I'm gonna tell you just about how much
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
relatives and I done the same with 86 that was
just her and her neighbors.

73 babies 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 just about like this.

I 125 head of wild horses, put saddles 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 dogs
me all over.

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

I chopped and I 314 arm loads of stoved
100 buckets of coal, and I carried a gallon of
kerosene 18 miles and a good pair of shoes in a
mud hole.

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

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 for some of her friends and
and run all kinds 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 trade unions I find and paid
my dues about 6 weeks ahead of time, 40
of swamps, 60 big rivers, walked across 2
mountain ranges and 3 deserts.

I got the and I got the sun stroke 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 up for lost and dead about 2 dozen times.
Struck by lightning, struck by Congress,
by and kinfolks, as well as by 3 cars on
the highways and a times in peoples'
henhouses.

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