Woody's Rag⁄Hard Work
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While we're on the subject of hard work
I just wanted to say that I always was a man to work
I was born working and I worked my way up by hard work
I ain't never got nowhere yet, but I got there by hard work
Work of the hardest kind
I've been down and I've been out and I've been busted
Disgusted and couldn't be trusted
I worked my way up and I worked my way down
I've been drunk and I've been sober, I've had hard times
And I got hijacked and I've been robbed for cash
And robbed on credit
Worked my way into jail and out of jail
And I woke up a lot of mornings and I didn't even know where I was at
But the hardest work I ever done
Was when I was trying to get myself a
Worried woman to ease my worried mind
Now I'm going to tell you just about how much hard work
I had to do to get this here woman that I'm a-telling you about
I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolks and her blood relatives
And I done the same with 86 people that
Was just her friends and her neighbors
Kissed 73 babies, put dry pants on 34 of them, as well as others
And done the same thing several times
As well as a lot of other things
Just about like this
I held 125 head of wild horses and put
Saddles and bridles on more than that
Harnessed some of the craziest, wildest teams in the whole country
I rode 14 local broncos to a dead standstill
And let 42 hound dogs lick me all over
Seven times I was bit by hungry dogs
And I was chewed all to pieces by water moccasins
And rattlesnakes on two separate river bottoms
I chopped and I carried 314 armloads of
Stove wood, a hundred buckets of coal
And I carried a gallon of kerosene 18 miles
And lost a good pair of shoes in a mudhole
And I chopped and I weeded 48 rows of
Short cotton, 13 acres of bad corn
And cut the sticker weeds out of 11 backyards
All on account of 'cause I wanted to show
Her that I was a man and I liked to work
I cleaned out 9 barn loads and cranked
31 Automobiles, all makes and models
Pulled 3 cars out of mudholes and 4 out of snowdrifts
I dug 5 cisterns of water for some of her friends and neighbors
And run all kinds of errands
I played the fiddle for 9 church meetings
And I joined 11 separate denominations
I signed up and joined up for 7 of the best trade unions I could find
And paid my dues about 6 weeks ahead of time
Waded 40 miles of swamp, 60 big rivers
Walked across 2 mountain ranges and crossed 3 deserts
I got the fever and I got the sunstroke
And I got the malaria and I got the flu
And I got moonstruck and skeeter bit
And the poison ivy and the seven year itch and the blind staggers
I was given up for lost and dead about two dozen times
Struck by lightning, struck by Congress
Struck by friends and kinfolks
As well as by 3 cars on the highways
And a lot of times in people's henhouses
I've been hit and run down and run
Over and walked on and knocked around
And I'm just sitting here now trying to study up what else I can do
To show that woman that I still ain't afraid of hard work