Lyrics Talking Hard Work - Woody Guthrie
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
by
hard
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
1 This Land is Your Land
2 When the Curfew Blows
3 Car Song
4 Rambling Round
5 Talking Fishing Blues
6 Philadelphia Lawyer
7 Lindbergh
8 Hobo's Lullaby
9 Pastures of Plenty
10 Grand Coulee Dam
11 End of the Line
12 New York Town
13 Gypsy Davy
14 Jesus Christ
15 Do Re Mi
16 Jarama Valley
17 The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done
18 A Picture from Life's Other Side
19 Jesse James
20 Talking Hard Work
21 When That Great Ship Went Down
22 Hard, Ain't It Hard
23 Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
24 I Ain't Got Nobody
25 The Sinking of the Reuben James
26 Why, Oh Why?
27 This Land is Your Land (reprise)
28 Muleskinner Blues
29 The Wreck of the Old 97
30 Sally Goodin'
31 Little Black Train
32 Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?
33 Baltimore to Washington
34 Rubber Dolly
35 21 Years
36 Sowing On the Mountain
37 Bed On the Floor
38 Take a Whiff On Me
39 Stepstone
40 Put My Little Shoes Away
41 Hen Cackle
42 Poor Boy
43 Stagger Lee
44 Johnny Hart - John Hardy
45 Worried Man Blues
46 Danville Girl
47 Gambling Man
48 Rye Straw
49 Crawdad Song
50 Ida Red
51 Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
52 Train 45
53 Hard Traveling
54 Farmer-Labor Train
55 Howdjadoo
56 Ship in the Sky
57 I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore
58 Mean Talking Blues
59 Better World A-Comin'
60 Miss Pavlichenko
61 So Long It's Been Good to Know You (War Version)
62 New Found Land
63 Oregon Trail
64 Vigilante Man
65 1913 Massacre
66 Talking Columbia
67 Two Good Men
68 Sally Don't You Grieve
69 Talking Sailor (Talking Merchant Marine)
70 What Are We Waiting On
71 Railroad Blues (Cripple Creek)
72 Ludlow Massacre
73 Ladies Auxilary
74 Miner's Song
75 When the Yanks Go Marching In
76 Union Maid
77 The Rubaiyat
78 The Many and the Few
79 Hanukkah Dance
80 Ranger's Command
81 Buffalo Skinners
82 Billy the Kid
83 Cowboy Waltz
84 Pretty Boy Floyd
85 Along in the Sun and the Rain
86 Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
87 Froggie Went A-Courtin'
88 Buffalo Gals
89 I Ride an Old Paint
90 Poor Lazurus - Dead or Alive
91 Slip Knot
92 Bad Lee Brown - Cocaine Blues
93 Go Tell Aunt Rhodie
94 Chisholm Trail
95 Stewball
96 Wild Cyclone
97 Railroad Blues
98 Red River Valley
99 Fastest of Ponies
100 Stewball (With Leadbelly/Cisco Houston)
101 Snow Deer
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