Key: C
Introduction:
C F
First time I seen my true Iove,
C G
he was walkin' by my door,
C F
the last time l saw his false hearted smile,
G C
he was dead on his coolin' board.
C F
It's a-hard and it's hard, ain't it hard,
C G
to love one that never did love you?
C F
It's a-hard, and it's hard, ain't it hard, great God,
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to love one that never will be true?
C F
There is a house in this town,
C G
that's where my true love lays around.
C F
He takes other women right down on his knee,
G C
he tells them a little tale he won't tell me.
C F
Don't go to drinkin' and gamblin',
C G
don't go there your sorrows to drown.
C F
This hard-liquor place is a low-down disgrace,
G C
it's the meanest damn place in this town.
C F
It was late last night, when my true love come in,
C G
rapped, and knocked upon my door.
C F
I jumped out in a fit of jealousy,
G C
that true love don?t knock here any more.