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Hard Aint It Hard by Woody Guthrie - Guitar Chords

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Hard, Ain't it Hard
Woodie Guthrie

Verse 1
C                    F
There is a house in this old town,
   C                     G7
Where my true love lays around,
               C                             F
Well, he (she) takes other women (men) right down on his (her) knee,
             C                   G7                            C
And he (she) tells them a little tale that he (she) won't tell me.

Chorus
                                  F
It's hard and it's hard, ain't it hard,
      C                         G7
To love one that never did love you.
     C                             F
It's hard and it's hard, ain't it hard, great God,
     C           G7            C
To love one that never will be true.

Verse 2
C                    F
Well, the first time that I seen my true love,

   C                     G7
He (she) was a-walkin' past my door,
               C                             F
And the last time I seen his (her) false-hearted smile,
             C                   G7                            C
He (she) was dead on his (her) coolin' board.

Chorus 
                                 F
It's hard and it's hard, ain't it hard,
      C                         G7
To love one that never did love you.
     C                             F
It's hard and it's hard, ain't it hard, great God,
     C           G7            C
To love one that never will be true.

Verse 3
C                    F
Now don't go to drinkin' and a-gamblin'
   C                     G7
Don't go there your sorrows to drown,
               C                             F
That hard liquor place is a low-down disgrace,
             C                   G7                            C
It's the meanest damn place in this town.

Chorus 
                                 F
It's hard and it's hard, ain't it hard,
      C                         G7
To love one that never did love you.
     C                             F
It's hard and it's hard, ain't it hard, great God,
     C           G7            C
To love one that never will be true.

Verse 4

C                    F
Now who's a-gonna kiss your ruby lips,

   C                     G7
And who's a-gonna hold you to their breast,
               C                             F
Who's a-gonna talk the future over,
             C                   G7                            C
While I'm a-ramblin' in the West?

Chorus 
                                 F
It's hard and it's hard, ain't it hard,
      C                         G7
To love one that never did love you.
     C                             F
It's hard and it's hard, ain't it hard, great God,
     C           G7            C
To love one that never will be true. 
        

We also have 32 songs by Woody Guthrie

• 1913 Massacre
• Bad Lee Brown Cocaine Blues
• Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
• Blowin Down This Old Dusty Road
• Do Re Mi
• Dust Bowl Refugee
• Dust Cant Kill Me
• Dusty Old Dust
• Grand Coulee Dam
• Gypsy Davy
• Hard Aint It Hard
• Hard Travelin
• Hobos Lullaby
• I Aint Got No Home
• Jesus Christ
• Little Black Train
• Lonesome Day
• Ludlow Massacre
• Pastures Of Plenty
• Pretty Boy Floyd
• Ramblin Round
• Riding In My Car
• Stackolee
• Take A Whiff On Me
• Talking Dust Bowl Blues
• The Ballad Of John Henry
• The Rangers Command
• The Sinking Of The Reuben James
• This Land Is Your Land
• This Train Is Bound For Glory
• Vigilante Man
• When The Curfew Blows

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