Chords for Hard Love by Bob Franke

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Hi, this is Bob Frankie.
It's come to my attention that
Some of you might be interested [E] in a song of mine called [Bb] hard love
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_ _ _ [G] _ This is it. _
_ _ _ I've got a capo on this guitar for you guitar players.
It's capo to the third [Eb] fret _
_ playing in the key of C _ _ _
_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [Ab] I _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ remember growing up _ [Ab] like it was only yesterday _
_ Mom [Gm] _ [Fm] _ [Gm] and daddy tried their best [Ab] to guide [Eb] me on my way
But the hard times and the liquor
_ _ [Ab] Drove the easy love away
_ _ [Bb] [Fm] And the only [Gm] love I knew about [Ab] was hard love _
_ [Eb] It was hard love _
_ _ [Ab] Every hour of the day
[Eb] _ [Fm] When Christmas [Gm] to my birthday
[Ab] Was [Eb] million years away and the fear that came between them
_ Drove [Ab] the tears into my play
[Bb] There [Fm] was love in [Gm] daddy's house
[Ab] But it was hard love _
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And I recall the gentle courtesy
_ You [Ab] gave me as I tried [Bb] [Fm] to
Dissemble [Gm] in politeness all the [Ab] love [Eb] I felt inside
_ And for every song of laughter
_ Was [Ab] another song the pride
_ [Gm] [Fm] This ain't no [Gm] easy weekend.
This is [Ab] hard love _
It [Eb] was hard _ love _
_ _ [Ab] Every _ step of the [Eb] way
[Fm] Hard to [Gm] be so close to you [Ab] so [Eb] hard to turn away
_ And when all the stars and sentimental [Ab] songs
_ Dissolved today
[Cm] There [Fm] was [Gm] nothing left to sing about [Ab] hard _ love _
_ [Eb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ So I loved you for your courage and [Ab] your gentle sense of shame
[Gm] And [Fm] I loved [Gm] you for your laughter [Ab] and your [Eb] language and your name
And I knew it was impossible
_ But [Ab] I loved you just the same
_ [Db] Though the only [D] love [Gm] I gave to [Ab] you
It was hard love
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It _ [Ab] was hard on you.
[Eb] I know
[Bb] When [F] the [D] only [Gm] love I gave to you
[Ab] Was [Eb] love I couldn't show
You forgave the heart that loved you as [Ab] your lover turned to gold
_ [Fm] Leaving nothing [Gm] but the memory of [Ab] hard love
_ So _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ I'm standing in this phone booth [Ab] with a dollar and a dime
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[Gm] Wondering what to say to you [Ab] to [Eb] ease your troubled mind
For the Lord's cross might redeem us, but our [Ab] own just waste our time
_ [Bb] [Fm] And to tell the [Gm] two apart
_ _ [Ab] Is always hard love
[Eb] So I'll tell you that I love you
Even [Ab]
though I'm far away
_ [Fm] I'll tell you how [Gm] you changed me as [Ab] I live [Eb] from day to _ day
How you helped me to accept myself [Ab] and I won't forget to say
_ [Bb] [Fm] Love is never [Gm] wasted
_ Even [Ab] when it's hard love
_ _ [Eb] Yes, it's hard love
_ _ _ But [Ab] it's love all the same
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[Fm] _ Not [Gm] the stuff of fantasy _
[Ab] More [Eb] than just a game
_ And the only kind of miracle _ _ _
[Ab] That's worthy of the name
_ For [F] the love that heals [Gm] our lives is [Ab] also hard love
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_ _ _ [N] That was hard love this is Bob Frankie
You can find out more about hard love and many other songs I've written at _ _ bobfrankie.com
_ Of course the cognosemi know that Frankie is spelled F-R-A-N-K-E
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