Hard, Ain't It Hard

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    First time I seen my true Iove,
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    he was walkin' by my door,
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    the last time l saw his false hearted smile,
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    he was dead on his coolin' board.

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It's a-hard and it's hard, ain't it hard,
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to love one that never did love you?
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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?

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    There is a house in this town,
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    that's where my true love lays around.
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    He takes other women right down on his knee,
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    he tells them a little tale he won't tell me.

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    Don't go to drinkin' and gamblin',
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    don't go there your sorrows to drown.
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    This hard-liquor place is a low-down disgrace,
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    it's the meanest damn place in this town.

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    It was late last night, when my true love come in,
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    rapped, and knocked upon my door.
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    I jumped out in a fit of jealousy,
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    that true love don't knock here any more.