文本歌词

(Talking) Hard Luck Blues - Woody Guthrie with his Guitar
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 mornin's
Didn't 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 I's 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 meetin's
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 people's 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