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Chord Req: Hard, Ain't It Hard (Guthrie)

17 May 07 - 11:03 PM (#2055151)
Subject: Chord Req: Hard, Ain't It Hard (Guthrie)
From: GUEST,in harmony

anyone have chords and lyrics for Woody Guthrie's Hard, Aint it Hard? Thanks

17 May 07 - 11:33 PM (#2055175)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Hard, Ain't It Hard (Guthrie)
From: GUEST,Don Meixner

Just Google most folk titles and add "Chords"
Thats all I did here.

C F First time I seen my true love C G7 He was walkin' by my door C The last time I saw F His false hearted smile G7 C Dead on his 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 Hard and it's hard ain't it hard, great God, G7 C To love one that never will be true. There is a house in this old town,
That's where my true love lays around.
Takes other women right down on his knee
Tells them a tale that he won't tell me.

Don't go to drinkin' and to gamblin',
Don't go there your sorrows to drown.
This hard-liquor place is a low-down disgrace,
The meanest damn place in this town.

18 May 07 - 12:50 AM (#2055207)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Hard, Ain't It Hard (Guthrie)
From: Little Robyn

I think those chords have jumped about some in the chorus. They should be where the gaps are.

It's (C) hard and it's hard ain't it (F)hard

To (C) love one that never did love (G7) you

(C) Hard and it's hard ain't it(F) hard, great God,

To (C)love one that (G7) never will be (C) true.

Robyn

18 May 07 - 01:20 AM (#2055218)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Hard, Ain't It Hard (Guthrie)
From: Joe Offer

I tried to fix Don's spacing by using a monospace font, but that didn't work, either. Where'd you find it, Don?
-Joe-

Here are the chords from the Folksinger's Word Book. They're more-or-less the same as Don & Robyn, but this is in the Key of D.

HARD, AIN'T IT HARD
(Woody Guthrie)

  
  D                    G
  First time I seen my true love
   D                    A7
  He was walkin' by my door
        D                    G
  The last time I seen his false hearted smile
  A7                          D
  He was dead on the barroom floor
  
                                      G
  It's hard and it's hard, ain't it hard
       D                           A7
  To love one that never did love you
   D                            G
  Hard and it's hard, ain't it hard, great God,
      A7                           D
  To love one that never will be true.

18 May 07 - 01:51 AM (#2055225)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Hard, Ain't It Hard (Guthrie)
From: GUEST,in harmony

thanks all.

18 May 07 - 01:16 PM (#2055676)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Hard, Ain't It Hard (Guthrie)
From: DonMeixner

As I said I googled it and cut and pasted. I didn't try it out last night as I should have. I was just too tired. I mowed my Mom's lawn for her. It is a lot bigger lawn at 56 than it was at 16 I can tell you.

Don

18 May 07 - 08:51 PM (#2056037)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Hard, Ain't It Hard (Guthrie)
From: Joe Offer

Hi, Don - it's always best to cite your source when you copy-paste.
-Joe-

07 Oct 12 - 01:27 PM (#3415909)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Hard, Ain't It Hard (Guthrie)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)

The Almanac Singers varied the verses a bit from concert to concert. Here are two versions:

Hard, Ain't It Hard
1
Hard, aint it hard
To love one who never did love you.
Hard, ain't it hard, ain't it hard, great god
To love one that never would be true.
2
It was late last night when my true love came home
He was a-knocking on my door
I got up in a fit of jealousy and I said
True love, don't come here anymore.
3
Hard, ain't it hard
To love one who never did love you
Hard, ain't it hard, great god,
To love one that never could be true.
4
The first time I seen my true love
He was a-knocking at my door
The last time I seen his hard-hearted smile
He was lyin' dead on the floor.

Chorus

5
Don't go to drinkin' and gamblin'
Don't go there your sorrows to drown
This hard liquor place is a low-down digrace
It's the mesnest bad place in this town.

Chorus
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Hard, Ain't It Hard
Almanac Singers (Guthrie, Lee Hays, Millard Lampell, Pete Seeger)

1
There is a house in this old town,
And that's where my true love lays around,
And he takes other women right down on his knee
And he tells them a little tale he won't tell me.
2
Hard, ain't it hard, ain't it hard
To love one that never did love you?
It's a-hard, and it's hard, ain't it hard, great god,
To love one that never will be true/
3
First time I seen my true love
He was walkin' by my door.
Last time I seen his false-hearted smile
He was dead on his coolin' board.
4
Don't go to drinkin' and gamblin',
Don't go there your sorrows to drown,
That hard-liquor place is a low-down disgrace,
It's the meanest damn place in this town.
5
Well, who's goin' to kiss your ruby lips,
And who's goin' to hold you to their breast?
And who will talk your future over
While I'm ramblin' in the west?

http://www.woodyguthrie.de/hard.html

Sod-Buster Ballads, Gen. 5019B.
Lyrics above from Bear Family Records, BCD 15720 JL, 1996, p. 88.

Woody Guthrie can be heard singing solo on youtube, from Asch records V. 1, 1944.