Hard Times chords by
Oscar Brand
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Key: G major
Verse 1
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C
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Am
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D
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G
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D
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And it's hard, hard times
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C

Come listen a while, I'll sing you a song
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D

About modern times,
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and it won't take too long
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C

Am
Am

How everybody is striving to buy
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D

And cheating each other,
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and no one knows why
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D

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It's hard, hard times.
It's father and mother
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C

Am
Am

and sister and brother.
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D

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G

Cousin and uncle is cheating each other.
The way that the cheating
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C

Am
Am

is go ing on here.
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D

If a fellow is honest,
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they think that he's queer.
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D

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G

It's hard, hard times.
Just notice your butcher
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C

who sells you the meat.
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D

If he ain't your friend,
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then my friend you don't eat.
He charges you double
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Am
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for what's on his list,
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And he weighs in his elbow,
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his thumb, and his fist,
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It's hard, hard times.
Now then, there's the merchant,
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so honest we're told,
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Whatever he sells you,
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my friend, you've been sold.
You'd better watch out
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so he don't do you dirt,
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Or you'll leave his establishment
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minus your shirt,
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It's hard, hard times.
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Am
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Then there's the doctor I like to forgot
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With all of his smiles
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he's the worst of the lot
He'll pill you, he'll purge you
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Am
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for half you possess
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And keep you half dead
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so he gets all the rest
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It's hard hard times
Now consider the lover
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who murmurs and sighs
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He swears that he worships
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your nose and your eyes
He speaks in such wonderful
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Am
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colors and shades,
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For he's practiced so often
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on other young maids.
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C
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It's hard, hard times.
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C
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D
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Why, isn't a fellow
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Am
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who hasn't some plan
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For cheatin' the pants
off
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of some honest man.
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Am
Am

Would everyone turn into evil or worst?
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D

Perhaps we had better start
cheatin' back first.
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D
D

It's hard, hard times
Outro 1
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C
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Am
Am

D
D

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