Arlo Guthrie - Woody's Rag/Hard Work Lyrics
While we're on the subject of hard work, I just wantedto say that I always was a man to work.I was born working and I worked my way up by hardwork. I ain't never got nowhere yet but I got there byhard work.Work of the hardest kind. I been down and I been outand I've been busted, disgusted and couldn't be trusted.I worked my way up and I worked my way down. I'vebeen drunk and I've been sober. I've had hard timesand I got hijacked and been robbed for cash and robbedon credit.Worked my way into jail and outta jail and I woke upa lotta mornings and I didn't even know where I was at.But the hardest work I ever done is when I was tryingto get myself a worried woman to ease my worriedmind.Now I'm gonna tell you just about how much hardwork I had to do to get this here woman that I'm a-tellin'you about.I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolks and her bloodrelatives and I done the same with 86 people that wasjust her friends and her neighbors.Kissed 73 babies and put dry pants on 34 of 'em, as wellas others, and done the When thing several times, as wellas a lot of other things just about like this.I held 125 head of wild horses, put saddles and bridleson more than that, harnessed some of the craziest,wildest teams in the whole country. I rode 14 locobroncos to a dead standstill and let 42 hound dogs lickme all over.7 times I was bit by hungry dogs and I was chewedall to pieces by water moccasins and rattlesnakes on2 separate river bottoms.I chopped and I carried 314 arm loads of stovedwood; 100 buckets of coal, and I carried a gallon of
