While we are on the of hard work I just wanted to say you that, "I always was a man who likes work" I was born working and I my way up by hard work I ain't got no where, but I got there by hard work
Work of the hardest kind I been and I been out I been disgusted I been busted and I be trusted I worked my way up and I my way down I been drunk and I been sober, I been baptized and got I been for cash and I been robbed on a credit
Worked my way in jail and I my way outta jail Woke up a lot of mornin's, didn't know I was at The hardest work I ever was, when I was tryin' To get myself a worried woman to ease my worried mind
I'm gonna tell ya just how much I had to do To get this woman I was tellin' you about, I shook With seven of her kinfolk and her blood relatives And I done just the same with six people Who's just her friends and her
I kissed seventy babies and put dry pants On thirty four of em', well as others done same thing several times Well there are a lot of other just like this I held one hundred twenty five wild And put saddles and on more than that
Harnessed some of the craziest and wildest teams in that country' I rode fourteen loco broncos to a stand And I let forty two dogs lick me all over seven times I's bit by hungry and I was chewed all to pieces My water and rattlesnakes on two river bottoms
I chopped and carried hundred fourteen arm loads Of stove wood, one hundred nine buckets of Carried a gallon of kerosene eighteen miles over the Got lost, lost a good pair of in a mud hole And I chopped and weeded forty eight rows of short
Thirteen acres of bad corn, I cut the sticker Out of eleven yards, all on account of 'cause I wanted to show her that I was a man and I liked to I out nine barn lofts, cranked thirty one cars All makes and models, pulled three out of mud holes And or five out of snow drifts
I dug cisterns of water for some of her friends Run all kinds of errands, the fiddle for nine Church meetin's I Joined eleven separate I joined up and up with seven best trade unions I could find, I paid my wages, a, dues six in advance
I waded forty eight miles of swamps and six big across two ranges of mountains Crossed deserts, I got the fever, sun stroke, Malaria, blue Moonstruck, skeeter bit, ivy and the seven year itch And the blind staggers, I was give up for less, and dead
A couple of times by lightning, struck by Congress Struck by friends and kinfolks eell as by three on highways A lot of times in people's hen houses, I hit and run down Run over and walked on knocked around, I'm just sittin' Now tryin' to study up what I can do to show that women That I still ain't of hard work