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Talking Hard Work - Woody Guthrie (伍迪·格思里)
While we are on the subject of hard work
I just wanted to tell you
That I am a man who likes hard work
I was born working
And I worked my way up by hard work
I ain't ever got no where
But I got there by hard work
Work of the hardest kind
I been down and I been out
I been disgusted I been busted
And I couldn't be trusted
I worked my way up
And I worked my way down
I been drunk and I been sober
I been baptized and hyjacked
Worked my way in jail
And I worked my way outta jail
Woke up a lot of mornins
Didnt know where I was at
The hardest work I ever done was
When I was tryin to get myself
A worried woman to help ease my worried mind
I'm gonna tell ya just how much work I had to do to get this woman
I was tellin you about
I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolk and her blood relatives
And I done just the same with 86 people
Whos just her friends and her neighbors
I kissed 73 babies
And put dry pants on 34 of em well as others
Done this same thing well
There are a lot of other things just like this
I held 125 wild horses and put saddles and bridles on more than that
Harnessed some of the wildest and craziest teams in that whole country
I rode 14 loco broncos to a stand still
And I let 42 hound dogs lick me all over
7 times Is bit by hungry dogs
And I was chewed all to pieces by rattlesnakes and water moccasins on 2 river bottoms
I chopped and carried 314 arm loads of stove wood
109 buckets of coal
Carried a gallon of kerosene 18 miles over the mountains
Got lost lost a good pair of shoes in a mudhole
And I chopped and weeded 48 rows of short cotton
13 acres of bad corn
I cut the sticker weeds out of 11 back yards
All on account of cuz I wanted to show her
That I was a man and I liked to work
I cleaned out 9 barn lofts
Cranked 31 cars all makes and models
Pulled 3 cars out of mud holes and 4 or 5 out of snow drifts
I dug 5 cisterns of water for some of her friends
Run all kinds of errands
Played the fiddle for 9 church meetins
I Joined 11 separate denominations
I joined up and signed up with 7 best trade unions I could find
I paid my wages um a dues 6 months in advance
I waded 48 miles of swamps and 6 big rivers
Walked across 2 ranges of mountains and crossed 3 deserts
I got the fever Sun stroke Malaria blue moonstruck skeeter bit Poison Ivy
And the 7-year itch and the blind staggers
I was give up for less lost and dead a couple of times
Struck by lightning struck by Congress struck by friends and kinfolks
Well as by 3 cars on highways A lot of times in peoples hen-houses
I been hit and run down run over and walked on knocked around
I'm just sittin here now tryin to study up what else I can do
To show that women that I still ain't afraid of hard work