Hard Luck And Misery chords by 
Burl Ives 
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Key: B major•
Verse 1
F#
B
F#
B
E
F#
B
I left my
E
home in Harlan County
F#
B
Headed for the lights of town
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I said I'd be back in a Cadillac
F#
B
But all I ever found was
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Lots of hard luck and misery
F#
B
Trouble keeps on a -talking me
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There ain't no future I can see
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B
E
F#
B
Just hard luck and misery
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I heard it was a rainin' dollar bills
F#
B
Right out of the sky they drifted
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So I climbed way up on the highest hill
F#
B
But the doggone wind had shif ted
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That's my hard luck and misery
F#
B
Trouble keeps on a -doublin' me
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There ain't no future I can see
F#
B
E
F#
B
Just hard luck and misery
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One day I got in a poker game
F#
B
Played just like my daddy taught me
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Now it's hard to be a man that'll cheat
F#
B
But as you can see, they caught me
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That's my hard luck and misery
F#
B
Trouble keeps on a -doggin' me
E
There ain't no future I can see
F#
B
E
F#
Just hard luck and misery
B
E
I sailed away on a big steamship
F#
B
But I fell overboard one Sunday
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So I swam forty miles to a tropical isle
F#
B
They're blowin' it up on Monday
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That's my hard luck and misery
F#
B
Trouble keeps on a -doggin' me
E
There ain't no future I can see
F#
B
Just hard luck and misery,
F#
B
hard luck and misery
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# B E
F#
B
E
Capo: 4
Transpose: 0
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