Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Talking Hard Work, artist - Leadbelly. Date of issue: 10.10.2019
Song language: English
Talking Hard Work |
| 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 aint 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 couldnt 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 mornins, 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. |
| Im 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 Is 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 meetins |
| 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 peoples hen-houses |
| I been hit and run down run over and walked on knocked around. |
| Im just sittin here now tryin to study up what else I can do to show that women |
| that I still aint afraid of hard work |