The Almanac Singers - Hard, Ain't It Hard lyrics

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 Iove He was walkin' by my door Last time l seen his false hearted smile He was dead on his coolin' board Don't go to drinkin' and 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 Well, who's goin' to kiss your ruby lips And who's goin' to hold you to their breast? And who will talk your future over While I'm ramblin' in the West?