Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and by Woody Guthrie

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

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

Work of the hardest kind. I been down and I 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 been sober. I've had hard
and I got hijacked and been robbed for and robbed
on credit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

7 I was bit by hungry dogs 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 buckets of coal, and I a gallon of
kerosene 18 miles and lost a good pair of in a
mud hole.

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

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

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

I played the for 9 church meetings and I joined
11 separate denominations. I up and joined
up for 7 of the best trade unions I could find and
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 and I got the sun stroke and I got the
and I got the flu and I got moonstruck and
skeeter bit, the ivy and the 7 year itch and the
staggers.

I was given up for lost and dead 2 dozen times.
Struck by lightning, by Congress, struck
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
on and knocked around and I'm just
settin' here now to study up what else I
can do to show that woman that I still afraid
of work.