Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and music by Woody

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 worked my way up by
work. I ain't never got yet but I got there by
work.

Work of the kind. I been down and I been out
and been busted, disgusted and couldn't be trusted.

I my way up and I worked my way down. I've
been drunk and I've been sober. had hard times
and I got and been robbed for cash and robbed
on credit.

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

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

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

I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolks and her
relatives and I the same with 86 people that was
her friends and her neighbors.

Kissed 73 babies and put dry pants on 34 of 'em, as
as others, and done the When several times, as well
as a lot of other things just about 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 14 loco
broncos to a standstill and let 42 hound dogs lick
me all over.

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

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

And I chopped and I weeded 48 of short cotton,
13 of bad corn 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 out 9 barnloads, and cranked 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 best trade unions I find and paid
my about 6 weeks ahead of time, waded 40
miles of swamps, 60 big rivers, across 2
mountain 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 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 and a lotta times in peoples'
henhouses.

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