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

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 see his false hearted smile

He was laying' 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

Don't go to drinking' 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

Well who's goin' to kiss your ruby lips

And who's goin' to hold you to his breast

And who will talk your future over

While I'm out ramblin' in the West

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