Talking Hard Work - Woody Guthrie

[00:00.0]Talking Hard Work - Woody Guthrie
[00:04.21]While we are on the subject of hard work
[00:05.94]I just wanted to tell you
[00:07.0]That I am a man who likes hard work
[00:09.54]I was born working
[00:10.59]And I worked my way up by hard work
[00:13.04]I ain't ever got no where
[00:14.35]But I got there by hard work
[00:17.29]Work of the hardest kind
[00:19.68]I been down and I been out
[00:21.66]I been disgusted I been busted
[00:23.49]And I couldn't be trusted
[00:25.34]I worked my way up
[00:26.43]And I worked my way down
[00:27.57]I been drunk and I been sober
[00:29.36]I been baptized and hyjacked
[00:35.74]Worked my way in jail
[00:37.01]And I worked my way outta jail
[00:39.57]Woke up a lot of mornins
[00:40.89]Didnt know where I was at
[00:43.87]The hardest work I ever done was
[00:45.17]When I was tryin to get myself
[00:46.38]A worried woman to help ease my worried mind
[00:50.12]I'm gonna tell ya just how much work I had to do to get this woman
[00:52.85]I was tellin you about
[00:55.86]I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolk and her blood relatives
[00:59.26]And I done just the same with 86 people
[01:01.19]Whos just her friends and her neighbors
[01:03.99]I kissed 73 babies
[01:05.46]And put dry pants on 34 of em well as others
[01:08.82]Done this same thing well
[01:10.38]There are a lot of other things just like this
[01:14.61]I held 125 wild horses and put saddles and bridles on more than that
[01:19.78]Harnessed some of the wildest and craziest teams in that whole country
[01:25.83]I rode 14 loco broncos to a stand still
[01:28.82]And I let 42 hound dogs lick me all over
[01:32.79]7 times Is bit by hungry dogs
[01:35.11]And I was chewed all to pieces by rattlesnakes and water moccasins on 2 river bottoms
[01:39.97]I chopped and carried 314 arm loads of stove wood
[01:44.990005]109 buckets of coal
[01:47.119995]Carried a gallon of kerosene 18 miles over the mountains
[01:50.94]Got lost lost a good pair of shoes in a mudhole
[01:55.56]And I chopped and weeded 48 rows of short cotton
[01:58.83]13 acres of bad corn
[02:00.55]I cut the sticker weeds out of 11 back yards
[02:03.73]All on account of cuz I wanted to show her
[02:05.82]That I was a man and I liked to work
[02:07.89]I cleaned out 9 barn lofts
[02:10.19]Cranked 31 cars all makes and models
[02:13.21]Pulled 3 cars out of mud holes and 4 or 5 out of snow drifts
[02:17.45999]I dug 5 cisterns of water for some of her friends
[02:20.47]Run all kinds of errands
[02:22.84]Played the fiddle for 9 church meetins
[02:24.85]I Joined 11 separate denominations
[02:27.89]I joined up and signed up with 7 best trade unions I could find
[02:33.18]I paid my wages um a dues 6 months in advance
[02:38.88]I waded 48 miles of swamps and 6 big rivers
[02:41.75]Walked across 2 ranges of mountains and crossed 3 deserts
[02:45.52]I got the fever Sun stroke Malaria blue moonstruck skeeter bit Poison Ivy
[02:52.72]And the 7-year itch and the blind staggers
[02:56.63]I was give up for less lost and dead a couple of times
[03:01.06]Struck by lightning struck by Congress struck by friends and kinfolks
[03:05.19]Well as by 3 cars on highways A lot of times in peoples hen-houses
[03:10.07]I been hit and run down run over and walked on knocked around
[03:14.63]I'm just sittin here now tryin to study up what else I can do
[03:17.42]To show that women that I still ain't afraid of hard work