Talking Hard Work Chords by Woody Guthrie
Tempo:
129.8 bpm
Chords used:
E
B
A
Bm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[E]
While we're on the subject of hard work, I just want to say that I always was a man to work.
I was born working and I worked my way up the hard work.
I ain't ever got nowhere yet, but I got there by hard work.
Work of the hardest kind.
I've been down and I've been out.
I've been disgusted and busted and I couldn't be trusted.
I worked my way up and I worked my way down.
I've been drunk and I've been sober and I've been baptized and got hijacked.
I've been robbed for cash and I've been robbed on the credit.
[B] Worked my way in jail and I worked my way out of [E] jail.
Woke up a lot of mornings [B] and didn't know where I was at.
[E]
The hardest work I ever done was when I was trying [A] to get myself a worried woman [B] to help ease my [E] worried mind.
I'm going to tell you just how much work I had to do to get this woman I was telling you about.
I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolks and her blood relatives and I done the same with 86 [B] people as just her friends and her [E] neighbors.
I kissed 73 babies and I put dry pants on 34 of them as well as others.
Done this same thing several times as well as a lot of other things just about like this.
I held 125 wild horses and I put saddles and bridles on more than that.
Harnessed some of the craziest [B] and wildest teams [E] in that whole country.
[Bm] [E] I rode 14 local broncos to a standstill.
[A] I let 42 hound dogs lick me all [E] over.
Seven times I was bit by hungry dogs and I was chewed all to pieces by water moccasins, rattlesnakes on two river bottoms.
I chopped and I carried 314 arm loads of stove wood,
109 buckets of coal, carried a gallon of caron seed 18 miles over the mountains,
got lost,
[B]
lost a good [E] pair of shoes in the mud hole
and I chopped and weeded 48 rows of short cotton, 13 acres of bad corn.
I cut [A] the sticker weeds out [E] of 11 backyards.
All [B] on account because I wanted to show her I was a [E] man and liked to work.
I cleaned out nine barn lofts, cranked 31 cars, all makes and models,
pulled three cars out of mud [B] holes and four or [E] five out of snow drifts.
I dug five cisterns of water for some [B] of her friends, run all kinds of [E]
errands,
played the fiddle for nine church meetings.
I joined 11 separate denominations.
I joined up and I signed up with seven best trade unions I could find,
paid my [B] wages, my dues
[E] six months in advance.
I waded 48 miles of swamps and six big rivers, walked across two ranges of mountains, crossed three deserts.
I got the fever, sun stroke, malaria, flu,
moon struck, skeeter bit, poison ivy, seven-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, it was by three [B] cars on highways [E] and a lot of times people's hen houses.
I've been hit and run down, run over and walked on, knocked around.
[B] I'm just sitting here now trying to study up what else I can do to show that [E] woman I still ain't afraid of hard work.
While we're on the subject of hard work, I just want to say that I always was a man to work.
I was born working and I worked my way up the hard work.
I ain't ever got nowhere yet, but I got there by hard work.
Work of the hardest kind.
I've been down and I've been out.
I've been disgusted and busted and I couldn't be trusted.
I worked my way up and I worked my way down.
I've been drunk and I've been sober and I've been baptized and got hijacked.
I've been robbed for cash and I've been robbed on the credit.
[B] Worked my way in jail and I worked my way out of [E] jail.
Woke up a lot of mornings [B] and didn't know where I was at.
[E]
The hardest work I ever done was when I was trying [A] to get myself a worried woman [B] to help ease my [E] worried mind.
I'm going to tell you just how much work I had to do to get this woman I was telling you about.
I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolks and her blood relatives and I done the same with 86 [B] people as just her friends and her [E] neighbors.
I kissed 73 babies and I put dry pants on 34 of them as well as others.
Done this same thing several times as well as a lot of other things just about like this.
I held 125 wild horses and I put saddles and bridles on more than that.
Harnessed some of the craziest [B] and wildest teams [E] in that whole country.
[Bm] [E] I rode 14 local broncos to a standstill.
[A] I let 42 hound dogs lick me all [E] over.
Seven times I was bit by hungry dogs and I was chewed all to pieces by water moccasins, rattlesnakes on two river bottoms.
I chopped and I carried 314 arm loads of stove wood,
109 buckets of coal, carried a gallon of caron seed 18 miles over the mountains,
got lost,
[B]
lost a good [E] pair of shoes in the mud hole
and I chopped and weeded 48 rows of short cotton, 13 acres of bad corn.
I cut [A] the sticker weeds out [E] of 11 backyards.
All [B] on account because I wanted to show her I was a [E] man and liked to work.
I cleaned out nine barn lofts, cranked 31 cars, all makes and models,
pulled three cars out of mud [B] holes and four or [E] five out of snow drifts.
I dug five cisterns of water for some [B] of her friends, run all kinds of [E]
errands,
played the fiddle for nine church meetings.
I joined 11 separate denominations.
I joined up and I signed up with seven best trade unions I could find,
paid my [B] wages, my dues
[E] six months in advance.
I waded 48 miles of swamps and six big rivers, walked across two ranges of mountains, crossed three deserts.
I got the fever, sun stroke, malaria, flu,
moon struck, skeeter bit, poison ivy, seven-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, it was by three [B] cars on highways [E] and a lot of times people's hen houses.
I've been hit and run down, run over and walked on, knocked around.
[B] I'm just sitting here now trying to study up what else I can do to show that [E] woman I still ain't afraid of hard work.
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ While we're on the subject of hard work, I just want to say that I always was a man to work. _
I was born working and I worked my way up the hard work.
I ain't ever got nowhere yet, but I got there by hard work.
_ Work of the hardest kind.
_ I've been down and I've been out.
I've been disgusted and busted and I couldn't be trusted.
I worked my way up and I worked my way down.
I've been drunk and I've been sober and I've been baptized and got hijacked.
I've been robbed for cash and I've been robbed on the credit.
_ [B] Worked my way in jail and I worked my way out of [E] jail.
_ Woke up a lot of mornings [B] and didn't know where I was at.
[E] _
_ _ The hardest work I ever done was when I was trying [A] to get myself a worried woman [B] to help ease my [E] worried mind. _
I'm going to tell you just how much work I had to do to get this woman I was telling you about.
_ _ _ I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolks and her blood relatives and I done the same with 86 [B] people as just her friends and her [E] neighbors.
_ _ I kissed 73 babies and I put dry pants on 34 of them as well as others.
Done this same thing several times as well as a lot of other things just about like this.
_ I held 125 wild horses and I put saddles and bridles on more than that.
Harnessed some of the craziest [B] and wildest teams [E] in that whole country.
[Bm] _ _ [E] _ _ _ I rode 14 local broncos to a standstill.
[A] I let 42 hound dogs lick me all [E] over.
_ _ Seven times I was bit by hungry dogs and I was chewed all to pieces by water moccasins, rattlesnakes on two river bottoms.
_ I chopped and I carried 314 arm loads of stove wood, _ _
109 buckets of coal, carried a gallon of caron seed 18 miles over the mountains,
got lost,
[B] _ _
lost a good [E] pair of shoes in the mud hole
and I chopped and weeded 48 rows of short cotton, 13 acres of bad corn.
I cut [A] the sticker weeds out [E] of 11 backyards.
All [B] on account because I wanted to show her I was a [E] man and liked to work. _
I cleaned out nine barn lofts, cranked 31 cars, all makes and models,
pulled three cars out of mud [B] holes and four or [E] five out of snow drifts.
I dug five cisterns of water for some [B] of her friends, run all kinds of [E] _
errands,
played the fiddle for nine church meetings.
I joined 11 separate _ denominations.
I joined up and I signed up with seven best trade unions I could find,
paid my [B] wages, my dues
[E] six months in advance.
_ _ I waded 48 miles of swamps and six big rivers, walked across two ranges of mountains, crossed three deserts.
I got the fever, sun stroke, malaria, flu,
moon struck, skeeter bit, poison ivy, seven-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, it was by three [B] cars on highways [E] and a lot of times people's hen houses. _
I've been hit and run down, run over and walked on, knocked around.
_ [B] I'm just sitting here now trying to study up what else I can do to show that [E] woman I still ain't afraid of hard work. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ While we're on the subject of hard work, I just want to say that I always was a man to work. _
I was born working and I worked my way up the hard work.
I ain't ever got nowhere yet, but I got there by hard work.
_ Work of the hardest kind.
_ I've been down and I've been out.
I've been disgusted and busted and I couldn't be trusted.
I worked my way up and I worked my way down.
I've been drunk and I've been sober and I've been baptized and got hijacked.
I've been robbed for cash and I've been robbed on the credit.
_ [B] Worked my way in jail and I worked my way out of [E] jail.
_ Woke up a lot of mornings [B] and didn't know where I was at.
[E] _
_ _ The hardest work I ever done was when I was trying [A] to get myself a worried woman [B] to help ease my [E] worried mind. _
I'm going to tell you just how much work I had to do to get this woman I was telling you about.
_ _ _ I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolks and her blood relatives and I done the same with 86 [B] people as just her friends and her [E] neighbors.
_ _ I kissed 73 babies and I put dry pants on 34 of them as well as others.
Done this same thing several times as well as a lot of other things just about like this.
_ I held 125 wild horses and I put saddles and bridles on more than that.
Harnessed some of the craziest [B] and wildest teams [E] in that whole country.
[Bm] _ _ [E] _ _ _ I rode 14 local broncos to a standstill.
[A] I let 42 hound dogs lick me all [E] over.
_ _ Seven times I was bit by hungry dogs and I was chewed all to pieces by water moccasins, rattlesnakes on two river bottoms.
_ I chopped and I carried 314 arm loads of stove wood, _ _
109 buckets of coal, carried a gallon of caron seed 18 miles over the mountains,
got lost,
[B] _ _
lost a good [E] pair of shoes in the mud hole
and I chopped and weeded 48 rows of short cotton, 13 acres of bad corn.
I cut [A] the sticker weeds out [E] of 11 backyards.
All [B] on account because I wanted to show her I was a [E] man and liked to work. _
I cleaned out nine barn lofts, cranked 31 cars, all makes and models,
pulled three cars out of mud [B] holes and four or [E] five out of snow drifts.
I dug five cisterns of water for some [B] of her friends, run all kinds of [E] _
errands,
played the fiddle for nine church meetings.
I joined 11 separate _ denominations.
I joined up and I signed up with seven best trade unions I could find,
paid my [B] wages, my dues
[E] six months in advance.
_ _ I waded 48 miles of swamps and six big rivers, walked across two ranges of mountains, crossed three deserts.
I got the fever, sun stroke, malaria, flu,
moon struck, skeeter bit, poison ivy, seven-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, it was by three [B] cars on highways [E] and a lot of times people's hen houses. _
I've been hit and run down, run over and walked on, knocked around.
_ [B] I'm just sitting here now trying to study up what else I can do to show that [E] woman I still ain't afraid of hard work. _ _
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