Talking Hard Work-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Hard Work] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Greatest Folk Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Hard Work - Woody Guthrie [00:04.16]While we are on the subject of hard work [00:05.89]I just wanted to tell you [00:06.95]That I am a man who likes hard work [00:08.64] [00:09.49]I was born working [00:10.54]And I worked my way up by hard work [00:12.19] [00:12.99]I ain't ever got no where [00:14.31]But I got there by hard work [00:15.95] [00:17.25]Work of the hardest kind [00:18.47] [00:19.64]I been down and I been out [00:21.61]I been disgusted I been busted [00:23.44]And I couldn't be trusted [00:24.57] [00:25.29]I worked my way up [00:26.38]And I worked my way down [00:27.52]I been drunk and I been sober [00:29.31]I been baptized and hyjacked [00:31.44] [00:35.69]Worked my way in jail [00:36.96]And I worked my way outta jail [00:38.37] [00:39.52]Woke up a lot of mornins [00:40.84]Didnt know where I was at [00:41.95] [00:43.83]The hardest work I ever done was [00:45.13]When I was tryin to get myself [00:46.34]A worried woman to help ease my worried mind [00:48.67] [00:50.07]I'm gonna tell ya just how much work I had to do to get this woman [00:52.80]I was tellin you about [00:53.77] [00:55.81]I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolk and her blood relatives [00:59.21]And I done just the same with 86 people [01:01.14]Whos just her friends and her neighbors [01:02.60] [01:03.94]I kissed 73 babies [01:05.42]And put dry pants on 34 of em well as others [01:08.23] [01:08.77]Done this same thing well [01:10.33]There are a lot of other things just like this [01:13.19] [01:14.56]I held 125 wild horses and put saddles and bridles on more than that [01:19.09] [01:19.73]Harnessed some of the wildest and craziest teams in that whole country [01:22.96] [01:25.78]I rode 14 loco broncos to a stand still [01:28.77]And I let 42 hound dogs lick me all over [01:31.52] [01:32.75]7 times Is bit by hungry dogs [01:35.07]And I was chewed all to pieces by rattlesnakes and water moccasins on 2 river bottoms [01:39.01] [01:39.92]I chopped and carried 314 arm loads of stove wood [01:43.72] [01:44.94]109 buckets of coal [01:47.07]Carried a gallon of kerosene 18 miles over the mountains [01:50.29] [01:50.89]Got lost lost a good pair of shoes in a mudhole [01:54.77] [01:55.51]And I chopped and weeded 48 rows of short cotton [01:58.27] [01:58.79]13 acres of bad corn [02:00.51]I cut the sticker weeds out of 11 back yards [02:02.84] [02:03.68]All on account of cuz I wanted to show her [02:05.77]That I was a man and I liked to work [02:06.90] [02:07.84]I cleaned out 9 barn lofts [02:10.14]Cranked 31 cars all makes and models [02:12.65] [02:13.16]Pulled 3 cars out of mud holes and 4 or 5 out of snow drifts [02:16.65] [02:17.41]I dug 5 cisterns of water for some of her friends [02:20.42]Run all kinds of errands [02:22.04] [02:22.79]Played the fiddle for 9 church meetins [02:24.81]I Joined 11 separate denominations [02:27.12] [02:27.85]I joined up and signed up with 7 best trade unions I could find [02:32.33] [02:33.14]I paid my wages um a dues 6 months in advance [02:37.12] [02:38.84]I waded 48 miles of swamps and 6 big rivers [02:41.70]Walked across 2 ranges of mountains and crossed 3 deserts [02:44.76] [02:45.47]I got the fever Sun stroke Malaria blue moonstruck skeeter bit Poison Ivy [02:52.67]And the 7-year itch and the blind staggers [02:54.85] [02:56.58]I was give up for less lost and dead a couple of times [03:00.35] [03:01.01]Struck by lightning struck by Congress struck by friends and kinfolks [03:05.15]Well as by 3 cars on highways A lot of times in peoples hen-houses [03:09.12] [03:10.03]I been hit and run down run over and walked on knocked around [03:13.59] [03:14.58]I'm just sittin here now tryin to study up what else I can do [03:17.37]To show that women that I still ain't afraid of hard work