While we are on the subject of hard I just wanted to say you that, "I always was a man who hard work" I was born working and I my way up by hard work I ever got no where, but I got there by hard work
Work of the kind I been down and I been out I disgusted I been busted and I couldn't be trusted I worked my way up and I worked my way I been drunk and I sober, I been baptized and got hijacked 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 where I was at The hardest work I done was, when I was tryin' To get myself a woman to help ease my worried mind
I'm tell ya just how much work I had to do To get this woman I was you about, I shook hands ninety seven of her kinfolk and her blood relatives And I done just the with eighty six people Who's her friends and her neighbors
I kissed three babies and put dry pants On thirty four of em', well as done this same thing several times there are a lot of other things just like this I one hundred twenty five wild horses And put saddles and bridles on more that
Harnessed some of the craziest and wildest teams in whole country' I fourteen loco broncos to a stand still And I let forty two dogs lick me all over seven times I's bit by dogs and I was chewed all to pieces My water moccasins and rattlesnakes on two river
I chopped and carried three fourteen arm loads Of stove wood, one hundred nine of coal Carried a of kerosene eighteen miles over the mountains Got lost, a good pair of shoes in a mud hole And I chopped and weeded eight rows of short cotton
Thirteen acres of bad corn, I cut the sticker Out of eleven back yards, all on of 'cause I wanted to show her I was a man and I liked to work I cleaned out nine barn lofts, cranked thirty one All makes and models, pulled three out of mud holes And four or out of snow drifts
I dug five cisterns of for some of her friends Run all kinds of errands, played the for nine meetin's I Joined eleven separate denominations I joined up and signed up with seven trade unions I could find, I my wages, a, dues six months in advance
I waded forty eight miles of swamps and six big Walked across two of mountains three deserts, I got the fever, sun stroke, Malaria, blue Moonstruck, skeeter bit, ivy and the seven year itch And the blind staggers, I was up for less, lost and dead
A couple of struck by lightning, struck by Congress Struck by friends and eell as by three cars on highways A lot of times in hen houses, I been hit and run down Run over and walked on around, I'm just sittin' here Now tryin' to study up what else I can do to that women I still ain't afraid of hard work