Hard Ain’t It Hard

Written by Woody Guthrie

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

                     C
First time I seen my true love
       G          D
He was walkin’ by my door
    G                   C
The last time I saw his false hearted smile
Dead on his coolin’ board

Verse 2

It’s hard and it’s hard ain’t it hard
   G                       D
To love one that never did love you
         G                  C
Hard and it’s hard ain’t it hard great God
   G        D               G
To love one that never will be true

Verse 3

                             C
There is a house in this old town
       G                       D
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

Verse 4

                            C
Don’t go to drinkin’ and to gambling
      G                     D
Don’t go there your sorrows to down
     G                      C
This hard-liquor place is a low-down disgrace
    G            D        G
The meanest damn place in this town