Hard and it's hard ain't it hard

To love one that never could love you

It's a-hard and it's hard ain't it hard great God

Just to love one that never will be true

There is a house in this old town

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

Hard and it's hard ain't it hard

To love one that never could love you?

It's a-hard and it's hard ain't it hard great God

Just to love one that never will be true

Don't go to drinkin' or 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

Hard and it's hard ain't it hard

To love one that never could love you

It's a-hard and it's hard ain't it hard great God

Just to love one that never will be true

Who's goin&apos to kiss your ruby lips

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

And who will talk your future over

While I'm out ramblin&apos in the West

Hard and it's hard ain't it hard

To love one that never could love you

It's a-hard and it's hard ain't it hard great God

Just to love one that never will be true

Well it's hard and it's hard ain't it hard

To love one that never could love you

It's a-hard and it's hard ain't it hard great God

Just to love one that never will be true