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woody guthrie - talkin' hard luck blues كلمات الأغنية

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 byhard 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

- woody guthrie

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