Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and by Woody Guthrie

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

I was born working and I 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 down and I out
and been busted, disgusted 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 robbed for cash and robbed
on credit.

Worked my way jail and outta jail and I woke up
a lotta mornings and I even 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 gonna tell you just about how hard
work I had to do to get this here woman that I'm
you about.

I shook hands 97 of her kinfolks and her blood
relatives and I done the 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 the When thing several times, as well
as a lot of other things just like this.

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

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

I chopped and I 314 arm loads of stoved
wood; 100 of coal, and I carried a gallon of
kerosene 18 and lost 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 weeds 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, 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 denominations. I signed up and joined
up for 7 of the best trade unions I could find and
my dues about 6 weeks 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 poison ivy and the 7 itch and the
staggers.

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

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