Chords for Ain't It Hard - Fingerpicking Blues - Mance Lipscomb

[Am] _ Ain't it hard, [Em] ain't it [G] hard, [A] ain't it hard?
_ [G] [A] Ain't it hard, ain't it hard, [E] ain't it hard?
[A] Ain't it hard, ain't it hard, [D] but man you [Am] know it's true
Can't [G] love someone who don't [A] love you
_ _ [Am] _ Sometimes, [E] sometimes, [A] sometimes
_ _ Sometimes I take [E] my baby to the good, good guy
_ [A] Sometimes I take my [D] baby to the good, good [Am] guy
And again [G] I tell you, you [A] shouldn't have to lie
_ [Am] Wonder where [G] my friend [A] gone go _
Wonder where my [E] friend gone go _
[G] [A] Wonder where he gonna fall, [D] didn't come back [Am] home at all
Wonder where [G] he is, he's [A] way too long
_ [Am] Got a mother [G] and a father, but they [A] ain't gone
_ _ [E] Got a mother and a father, but they ain't gone
[G] Got [A] a mother and a father, [D] but they [Am] ain't gone
And they left me [G] in this wild world [A] alone
_ [Am] Wasn't _ _ [Em] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] the [G] last word [E] I heard [G] my [A] mama _ [G] say
[A] When she's laying on the dying [E] _ bedside
[G] [A] Wasn't the last word I heard [D] my mama say before [A] she [Am] died
Standing on the [G] walls in the creek [A] and crying
_ _ [Am] _
One more [G] kind of favor I'd [A] like to give you
[Am] One more kind of favor I'd like [E] to give you
[G] [A] When I'm dead, sun, [Bm] and asleep and [Am] in the ground
Won't you see [E] my [G] grave [A] is kept clean
_ [Am] When I'm [G] dead, ain't gone, [A] dead, ain't gone
_ [G] I [A] want to dig my [E] grave while in deep, _ [G] [A] and dig deep for
_ [D]
[A] Just let me [Am] down and some water, [G] sun, [A] and sun
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