Hard, Ain't It Hard lyrics

First time I seen my true love

He was walkin' by my door.

The last time I saw his false hearted smile

He was dead on his coolin' board.

It's a-hard and it's 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?

There is a house in this 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 tale that he won't tell me.

It's a-hard and it's 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?

Don't go to drinkin' or to gamblin',

Don't go there your sorrows to drown.

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

It's the meanest old place in this town

It's a-hard and it's 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?

I was late last night when my True Love come in,

Rapping, rapping, on my door;

I jumped out in a fit of Jealousy

Said, True Love don't knock here anymore.

• Artist:Woody Guthrie