First time I seen my true love

He was walkin' by my door

The last time I saw his false hearted smile

Dead on his coolin' board



It's hard and it's hard ain't it hard

To love one that never did love you

Hard and it's hard ain't it hard great God

To love one that never will be true



There is a house in this old town

That's where my true love lays around

Takes other women right down on his knee

Tells them a tale that he won't tell me



Don't go to drinkin' and to gambling

Don't go there your sorrows to down

This hard-liquor place is a low-down disgrace

The meanest damn place in this town