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

He takes other women right down on his knee

He tells them a little tale 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

Well 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

And 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

First time I seen my true love

He was walkin' by my door

The next time I saw his false hearted smile

He was layin' dead and cold on floor

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

And 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