[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:04.21]While we are on the subject of hard work [00:05.94]I just wanted to tell you [00:07.00]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 [01:44.99]109 buckets of coal [01:47.12]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 [02:17.46]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