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 I always was a man to work.

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

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

I worked my way up and I worked my way down.
been drunk and I've been sober. I've had times
and I got and been 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 woman to ease my
mind.

Now I'm gonna tell you 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
relatives and I done the with 86 people that was
just her and her neighbors.

73 babies 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 just like this.

I held 125 head of horses, put saddles and bridles
on more than that, some of the craziest,
wildest teams in the whole country. I rode 14
broncos to a standstill and let 42 hound dogs lick
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 lost a good of shoes in a
mud hole.

And I chopped and I weeded 48 of short cotton,
13 acres of bad corn and cut the 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 and models, pulled 3 cars out of mud
and 4 out of snowdrifts.

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

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

I got the fever and I got the sun 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 and dead 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
on and knocked around and I'm just
settin' here now trying to up what else I
can do to show woman that I still ain't afraid
of work.