Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and by Woody Guthrie

While we're on the subject of hard work, I wanted
to say that I 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 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 worked my way down.
been drunk and been sober. I've had hard times
and I got hijacked and been for cash and robbed
on credit.

Worked my way into jail and outta jail and I 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 a worried woman to ease my worried
mind.

Now I'm gonna tell you about how much hard
I had to do to get this 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.

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 things about like this.

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

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

I chopped and I carried 314 arm loads of
wood; 100 buckets of coal, and I 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 acres of bad and cut the sticker 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 cleaned out 9 barnloads, and 31 automobiles,
all and models, pulled 3 cars out of mud
and 4 out of snowdrifts.

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

I played the fiddle for 9 church meetings and I
11 separate denominations. I signed up and
up for 7 of the trade unions I could find and paid
my dues 6 weeks ahead of time, waded 40
of swamps, 60 big rivers, walked across 2
mountain and crossed 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 ivy and the 7 year itch and the
staggers.

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

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