Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and music by Woody

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

I was born working and I my way up by hard
work. I never 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 my way down. I've
been drunk and I've been sober. I've had times
and I got hijacked and robbed for cash and robbed
on credit.

my way into jail and outta jail and I woke up
a lotta and I didn't even know 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
work I had to do to get this here woman I'm a-tellin'
you about.

I shook with 97 of her kinfolks and her blood
relatives and I done the same 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 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 times I was bit by hungry dogs and I was
all to pieces by water and rattlesnakes on
2 river bottoms.

I and I carried 314 arm loads of stoved
wood; 100 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 rows of cotton,
13 acres of bad corn and cut the sticker out of
11 back yards, all on 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 and models, pulled 3 cars out of mud
and 4 out of snowdrifts.

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

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

I got the fever and I got the sun 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 lost and about 2 dozen times.
by lightning, struck by Congress, struck
by friends and kinfolks, as well as by 3 on
the highways and a lotta times in
henhouses.

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