Hard ain’t it hard    (Listen to sample)

 

      C                              F

1. First time I seen my true Iove,

    C                                  G

    he was walkin' by my door,

           C                           F

    the last time l saw his false hearted smile,

                    G                           C

    he was dead on his coolin' board.

 

           C                                     F

It's a-hard and it's hard, ain't it hard,

     C                                           G

to love one that never did love you?

           C                                      F

It's a-hard, and it's hard, ain't it hard, great God,

     G                   G7                 C

to love one that never will be true?

       C                                  F

2. There is a house in this town,

      C                                              G

    that's where my true love lays around.

           C                                     F

    He takes other women right down on his knee,

          G                                                  C

    he tells them a little tale he won't tell me. + CHORUS

       C                                 F

3. Don't go to drinkin' and gamblin',

              C                                      G

    don't go there your sorrows to drown.

              C                               F

    This hard-liquor place is a low-down disgrace,

          G                                                C

    it's the meanest damn place in this town.  + CHORUS

               C                                     F

4. It was late last night, when my true love come in,

     C                                                G

    rapped, and knocked upon my door.

    C                         F

    I jumped out in a fit of jealousy,

             G                                               C

    that true love don’t knock here any more.    + CHORUS  

                    

(capo 3rd)            (Woody Guthrie)