{"id":28762,"date":"2026-01-08T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=28762"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:45:09","slug":"hard-aint-it-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/hard-aint-it-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard, Ain’t it Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"
[Intro]\r\nG<\/span>\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n                                            C<\/span>\r\nOh well, it\u2019s hard, ain\u2019t it hard, ain\u2019t it hard\r\n   G<\/span>                           D<\/span>\r\nTo love one who never did love you\r\n              G<\/span>                             C<\/span>\r\nOh well, it\u2019s hard, ain\u2019t it hard, ain\u2019t it hard, great god\r\n   G<\/span>            D<\/span>             G<\/span>\r\nTo love one who never will be true\r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\n                                   C<\/span>\r\nWell, there is a house in this old town\r\n    G<\/span>                               D<\/span>\r\nAnd that\u2019s where my true love lays around\r\n        G<\/span>                        C<\/span>\r\nAnd she sits down upon another\u2019s knee (do tell)\r\n    G<\/span>                  D<\/span>               G<\/span>\r\nAnd tells him what she never will tell me\r\n\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n                                            C<\/span>\r\nOh well, it\u2019s hard, ain\u2019t it hard, ain\u2019t it hard (oh yes)\r\n   G<\/span>                           D<\/span>\r\nTo love one who never did love you\r\n              G<\/span>                             C<\/span>\r\nOh well, it\u2019s hard, ain\u2019t it hard, ain\u2019t it hard, great god\r\n   G<\/span>            D<\/span>             G<\/span>\r\nTo love one who never will be true\r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\n                                  C<\/span>\r\nOh well, the first time I seen my true love\r\n          G<\/span>                D<\/span>\r\nShe was a-standing a-by my door\r\n        G<\/span>                    C<\/span>\r\nAnd the last time I seen her false-hearted smile\r\n        G<\/span>            D<\/span>       G<\/span>\r\nShe was dead on that barroom floor (porter)\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n                                            C\r\nOh well, it\u2019s hard, ain\u2019t it hard, ain\u2019t it hard (oh yes)\r\n   G                           D\r\nTo love one who never did love you\r\n              G                             C\r\nOh well, it\u2019s hard, ain\u2019t it hard, ain\u2019t it hard, great god\r\n   G            D             G\r\nTo love one who never will be true\r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\n                                 C\r\nWell, who\u2019s gonna kiss your ruby lips?\r\nG                            D\r\nWho\u2019s gonna hold your little hand?\r\n    G                    C\r\nAnd who\u2019s gonna do, well, you know what\r\n     G        D                G\r\nWhen I\u2019m down in that promised land? (hey)\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n                                            C\r\nOh well, it\u2019s hard, ain\u2019t it hard, ain\u2019t it hard (oh yes)\r\n   G                           D\r\nTo love one who never did love you\r\n              G                             C\r\nOh well, it\u2019s hard, ain\u2019t it hard, ain\u2019t it hard, great god\r\n   G            D             G\r\nTo love one who never will be true (pick it)\r\n \r\n[Instrumental]\r\nG  C  G  D  G  C  G D G\r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\n                               C\r\nOh well, don\u2019t go drinkin\u2019 and gamblin\u2019\r\n      G                            D\r\nDon\u2019t go there your sorrows for to drown\r\n              G                     C\r\nOh well, this hard liquor place is a low down disgrace\r\n         G            D             G\r\nIt\u2019s the meanest darn place in this town\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n                                            C\r\nOh well, it\u2019s hard, ain\u2019t it hard, ain\u2019t it hard (oh yes)\r\n   G                           D\r\nTo love one who never did love you\r\n              G                             C\r\nOh well, it\u2019s hard, ain\u2019t it hard, ain\u2019t it hard, great god\r\n   G            D             G\r\nTo love one who never will be true (here we go)\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n                                            C\r\nOh well, it\u2019s hard, ain\u2019t it hard, ain\u2019t it hard (oh yes)\r\n   G                           D\r\nTo love one who never did love you\r\n              G                             C\r\nOh well, it\u2019s hard, ain\u2019t it hard, ain\u2019t it hard, great god\r\n   G            D             G\r\nTo love one who never will be true\r\n
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[Intro] G { CHORUS } C Oh well, it\u2019s hard, ain\u2019t it hard, ain\u2019t it hard G D To love one who never did love you G C Oh well, it\u2019s hard, ain\u2019t it hard, ain\u2019t it hard, great god G D G To love one who never will be … CLICK TO VIEW SONGHard, Ain’t it Hard<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28763,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28762\/revisions\/28763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}