Words and music by Woody GuthrieWhile we're on the subject of hard work, I just wantedTo say that I always was a man to work.I was born working and I worked my way up by hardWork. I ain't never got nowhere yet but I got there byHard work.Work of the hardest kind. I been down and I been outAnd I've been busted, disgusted and couldn't be trusted.I worked my way up and I worked my way down. I'veBeen drunk and I've been sober. I've had hard timesAnd I got hijacked and been robbed for cash and robbedOn credit.Worked my way into jail and outta jail and I woke upA lotta mornings and I didn't even know where I was at.But the hardest work I ever done is when I was tryingTo get myself a worried woman to ease my worriedMind.Now I'm gonna tell you just about how much hardWork I had to do to get this here woman that I'm a-tellin'You about.I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolks and her bloodRelatives and I done the same with 86 people that wasJust her friends and her neighbors.Kissed 73 babies and put dry pants on 34 of 'em, as wellAs others, and done the When thing several times, as wellAs a lot of other things just about like this.I held 125 head of wild horses, put saddles and bridlesOn more than that, harnessed some of the craziest,Wildest teams in the whole country. I rode 14 locoBroncos to a dead standstill and let 42 hound dogs lickMe all over.7 times I was bit by hungry dogs and I was chewedAll to pieces by water moccasins and rattlesnakes on2 separate river bottoms.I chopped and I carried 314 arm loads of stovedWood; 100 buckets of coal, and I carried a gallon ofKerosene 18 miles and lost a good pair of shoes in aMud hole.And I chopped and I weeded 48 rows of short cotton,13 acres of bad corn and cut the sticker weeds out of11 back yards, all on account a 'cause I wanted toShow her that I was a man and I liked to workI cleaned out 9 barnloads, 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 andNeighbors and run all kinds of errands.I played the fiddle for 9 church meetings and I joined11 separate denominations. I signed up and joinedUp for 7 of the best trade unions I could find and paidMy dues about 6 weeks ahead of time, waded 40Miles of swamps, 60 big rivers, walked across 2Mountain ranges and crossed 3 deserts.I got the fever and I got the sun stroke and I got theMalaria and I got the flu and I got moonstruck andSkeeter bit, the poison ivy and the 7 year itch and theBlind staggers.I was given up for lost and dead about 2 dozen times.Struck by lightning, struck by Congress, struckBy friends and kinfolks, as well as by 3 cars onThe highways and a lotta times in peoples'Henhouses.I been hit and run down and run over andWalked on and knocked around and I'm justSettin' here now trying to study up what else ICan do to show that woman that I still ain't afraidOf hard work.
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