Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and by Woody Guthrie

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

I was born working and I worked my way up by
work. I never got nowhere yet but I got there by
work.

Work of the hardest kind. I been down and I out
and I've been busted, disgusted and be trusted.

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

Worked my way into jail and outta jail and I up
a lotta mornings and I even know where I was at.

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

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

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

73 babies and put dry pants on 34 of 'em, as well
as others, and done the thing several times, as well
as a lot of things just about like this.

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

7 times I was bit by dogs and I was chewed
all to pieces by water moccasins and on
2 river 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 of short cotton,
13 acres of bad corn and cut the weeds out of
11 back yards, all on account a I wanted to
her that 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 water for of her friends and
and run all kinds of errands.

I played the fiddle for 9 meetings and I joined
11 separate denominations. I signed up and
up for 7 of the best trade unions I could and paid
my dues 6 weeks ahead of time, waded 40
of swamps, 60 big rivers, walked across 2
mountain and crossed 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 year and the
staggers.

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

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