《Woody’s Rag/Hard Work》歌词

[00:00:00] Woody's Rag/Hard Work - Arlo Guthrie (阿洛·古利)

[00:00:27] While we're on the subject of hard work I just wanted

[00:00:30] To say that I always was a man to work

[00:00:33] I was born working and I worked my way up by hard work

[00:00:37] I ain't never got nowhere yet but I got there by

[00:00:40] Hard work

[00:00:41] Work of the hardest kind I been down and I been out

[00:00:44] And I've been busted disgusted and couldn't be trusted

[00:00:48] I worked my way up and I worked my way down

[00:00:51] I've been drunk and I've been sober I've had hard times

[00:00:54] And I got hijacked and been robbed for cash and robbed

[00:00:57] On credit

[00:00:59] Worked my way into jail and outta jail and I woke up

[00:01:03] A lotto mornings and I didn't even know where I was at

[00:01:06] But the hardest work I ever done is when I was trying

[00:01:09] To get myself a worried woman to ease my worried

[00:01:12] Mind

[00:01:14] Now I'm gonna tell you just about how much hard

[00:01:16] Work I had to do to get this here woman that I'm a-tellin'

[00:01:20] You about

[00:01:21] I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolks and her blood

[00:01:25] Relatives and I done the same with 86 people that was

[00:01:28] Just her friends and her neighbors

[00:01:31] Kissed 73 babies and put dry pants on 34 of 'em as well

[00:01:35] As others and done the When thing several times as well

[00:01:39] As a lot of other things just about like this

[00:01:43] I held 125 head of wild horses put saddles and bridles

[00:01:48] On more than that harnessed some of the craziest

[00:01:51] Wildest teams in the whole country I rode 14 loco

[00:01:55] Broncos to a dead standstill and let 42 hound dogs lick

[00:01:59] Me all over

[00:02:00] 7 times I was bit by hungry dogs and I was chewed

[00:02:03] All to pieces by water moccasins and rattlesnakes on

[00:02:06] 2 separate river bottoms

[00:02:08] I chopped and I carried 314 arm loads of stoves

[00:02:12] Wood 100 buckets of coal and I carried a gallon of

[00:02:16] Kerosene 18 miles and lost a good pair of shoes in a

[00:02:19] Mud hole

[00:02:20] And I chopped and I weeded 48 rows of short cotton

[00:02:24] 13 acres of bad corn and cut the sticker weeds out of

[00:02:27] 11 back yards all on account a 'cause I wanted to

[00:02:31] Show her that I was a man and I liked to work

[00:02:35] I cleaned out 9 barn loads and cranked 31 automobiles

[00:02:39] All makes and models pulled 3 cars out of mud

[00:02:42] Holes and 4 out of snowdrifts

[00:02:45] I dug 5 cisterns of water for some of her friends and

[00:02:48] Neighbors and run all kinds of errands

[00:02:50] I played the fiddle for 9 church meetings and I joined

[00:02:53] 11 separate denominations I signed up and joined

[00:02:57] Up for 7 of the best trade unions I could find and paid

[00:03:01] My dues about 6 weeks ahead of time waded 40

[00:03:04] Miles of swamps 60 big rivers walked across 2

[00:03:07] Mountain ranges and crossed 3 deserts

[00:03:10] I got the fever and I got the sun stroke and I got the

[00:03:13] Malaria and I got the flu and I got moonstruck and

[00:03:16] Skeeter bit the poison ivy and the 7 year itch and the

[00:03:19] Blind staggers

[00:03:21] I was given up for lost and dead about 2 dozen times

[00:03:25] Struck by lightning struck by Congress struck

[00:03:27] By friends and kinfolks as well as by 3 cars on

[00:03:30] The highways and a lotto times in peoples'

[00:03:33] Hen houses

[00:03:34] I been hit and run down and run over and

[00:03:37] Walked on and knocked around and I'm just

[00:03:39] Settin' here now trying to study up what else I

[00:03:42] Can do to show that woman that I still ain't afraid

[00:03:44] Of hard work