《Talking Hard Work》歌词

[00:00:00] Talking Hard Work - Woody Guthrie

[00:00:04] While we are on the subject of hard work

[00:00:05] I just wanted to tell you

[00:00:07] That I am a man who likes hard work

[00:00:09] I was born working

[00:00:10] And I worked my way up by hard work

[00:00:13] I ain't ever got no where

[00:00:14] But I got there by hard work

[00:00:17] Work of the hardest kind

[00:00:19] I been down and I been out

[00:00:21] I been disgusted I been busted

[00:00:23] And I couldn't be trusted

[00:00:25] I worked my way up

[00:00:26] And I worked my way down

[00:00:27] I been drunk and I been sober

[00:00:29] I been baptized and hyjacked

[00:00:35] Worked my way in jail

[00:00:37] And I worked my way outta jail

[00:00:39] Woke up a lot of mornins

[00:00:40] Didnt know where I was at

[00:00:43] The hardest work I ever done was

[00:00:45] When I was tryin to get myself

[00:00:46] A worried woman to help ease my worried mind

[00:00:50] I'm gonna tell ya just how much work I had to do to get this woman

[00:00:52] I was tellin you about

[00:00:55] I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolk and her blood relatives

[00:00:59] And I done just the same with 86 people

[00:01:01] Whos just her friends and her neighbors

[00:01:03] I kissed 73 babies

[00:01:05] And put dry pants on 34 of em well as others

[00:01:08] Done this same thing well

[00:01:10] There are a lot of other things just like this

[00:01:14] I held 125 wild horses and put saddles and bridles on more than that

[00:01:19] Harnessed some of the wildest and craziest teams in that whole country

[00:01:25] I rode 14 loco broncos to a stand still

[00:01:28] And I let 42 hound dogs lick me all over

[00:01:32] 7 times Is bit by hungry dogs

[00:01:35] And I was chewed all to pieces by rattlesnakes and water moccasins on 2 river bottoms

[00:01:39] I chopped and carried 314 arm loads of stove wood

[00:01:44] 109 buckets of coal

[00:01:47] Carried a gallon of kerosene 18 miles over the mountains

[00:01:50] Got lost lost a good pair of shoes in a mudhole

[00:01:55] And I chopped and weeded 48 rows of short cotton

[00:01:58] 13 acres of bad corn

[00:02:00] I cut the sticker weeds out of 11 back yards

[00:02:03] All on account of cuz I wanted to show her

[00:02:05] That I was a man and I liked to work

[00:02:07] I cleaned out 9 barn lofts

[00:02:10] Cranked 31 cars all makes and models

[00:02:13] Pulled 3 cars out of mud holes and 4 or 5 out of snow drifts

[00:02:17] I dug 5 cisterns of water for some of her friends

[00:02:20] Run all kinds of errands

[00:02:22] Played the fiddle for 9 church meetins

[00:02:24] I Joined 11 separate denominations

[00:02:27] I joined up and signed up with 7 best trade unions I could find

[00:02:33] I paid my wages um a dues 6 months in advance

[00:02:38] I waded 48 miles of swamps and 6 big rivers

[00:02:41] Walked across 2 ranges of mountains and crossed 3 deserts

[00:02:45] I got the fever Sun stroke Malaria blue moonstruck skeeter bit Poison Ivy

[00:02:52] And the 7-year itch and the blind staggers

[00:02:56] I was give up for less lost and dead a couple of times

[00:03:01] Struck by lightning struck by Congress struck by friends and kinfolks

[00:03:05] Well as by 3 cars on highways A lot of times in peoples hen-houses

[00:03:10] I been hit and run down run over and walked on knocked around

[00:03:14] I'm just sittin here now tryin to study up what else I can do

[00:03:17] To show that women that I still ain't afraid of hard work