The song Hard Ain't it Hard is performed by Woody Guthrie in the album named The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 in the year 1999 .
There is a house in this old town,
And that's where my true love lays around.
And he takes other women right down on his knee
And he tells them a little tale he won't tell me.
It's a-hard and it's hard, ain't it hard
To love one that never did love you?
It's a-hard, and it's hard, ain't it hard, great God,
To love one that never will be true?
First time I seen my true love
He was walkin' by my door.
The next time I saw his false hearted smile
He was layin' dead and cold on floor.
Well, who's goin' to kiss your ruby lips,
And who's goin' to hold you to his breast?
And who will talk your future over
While I'm out ramblin' in the West?
Don't go to drinkin' or to gamblin',
Don't go there your sorrows to drown.
That hard-liquor place is a low-down disgrace,
It's the meanest old place in this town
Woody Guthrie - The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4
- This Land is Your Land
- Car Song
- Rambling Round
- Talking Fishing Blues
- Philadelphia Lawyer
- Lindbergh
- Hobo's Lullaby
- Pastures of Plenty
- Grand Coulee Dam
- End of the Line
- New York Town
- Gypsy Davy
- Jesus Christ
- Do-Re-Mi
- Jarama Valley
- The Biggest Thing Man's Ever Done
- Picture from Life's Other Side
- Jesse James
- Talking Hard Work
- When That Great Ship Went Down
- Hard Ain't it Hard
- Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- The Sinking of the Reuben James
- Why, Oh Why?
- This Land is Your Land (reprise)
- Muleskinner Blues (Blue Yodel #8)
- The Wreck of the Old 97
- Sally Goodin'
- Little Black Train
- Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
- Baltimore to Washington
- Rubber Dolly
- 21 Years
- Sowing on the Mountain
- Bed on the Floor
- Take a Whiff on Me
- Stepstone
- Put My Little Shoes Away
- Hen Cackle
- Poor Boy
- Stackolee (Stagger Lee)
- Johnny Hart (John Hardy)
- Worried Man Blues
- Danville Girl
- Gambling Man
- Rye Straw
- Crawdad Song
- Ida Red
- Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
- Train 45
- Hard Travelin'
- Farmer-Labor Train
- Howdjado
- Ship in the Sky
- I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
- Mean Talking Blues
- Better World A-Coming
- Miss Pavlichencko
- So Long It's Been Good to Know You (War Version)
- New Found Land
- Oregon Trail
- Vigilante Man
- 1913 Massacre
- Talking Columbia
- Two Good Men
- Sally Don't You Grieve
- Talking Sailor (Talking Merchant Marine)
- What are We Waiting On?
- Railroad Blues
- Ludlow Massacre
- Ladies Auxilary
- Miner's Song
- When the Yanks Go Marching In?
- Union Maid (excerpt)
- The Rubaiyat (excerpt)
- The Many and the Few
- Hanukkah Dance
- Ranger's Command
- Buffalo Skinners
- Billy the Kid
- Cowboy Waltz
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Along in the Sun and the Rain
- Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
- Froggie Went A-Courtin'
- Buffalo Gals
- I Ride an Old Paint
- Dead or Alive (Poor Lazurus)
- Slip Knot
- Cocaine Blues (Bad Lee Brown)
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody
- Chisholm Trail
- Stewball
- Wild Cyclone
- Train Blues
- Red River Valley
- Fastest of Ponies
- Stewball
- Snow Deer
- When the Curfew Blues
- Little Darling (At My Window Sad and Lonely)
- Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road
- The Return of Rocky Mountain Slim and Desert Rat Shorty