Martin Simpson – Hard Love chords

     C             C7                   G           AmI remember growing up loved like it was only yesterday
G                                   F             CMum and daddy tried their best to guide me on my way
         C                              Dm7        AmBut the hard times and the liqour drove easy love away 
        G                           CAnd the only love I knew about was hard love


        C               G          AmIt was hard love every hour of the day
       G                             F              CWhen Christmas to my birthday was a million years away
         C                                     Dm7           AmAnd the fear that came between them drove the tears into my play
           G                                CThere was love in daddy's house but it was hard love


     C               C7            G             AmI recall the gentle courtesy you showed me as I tried 
       G                            F             CTo dissemble in politeness all the love I felt inside
         C                                Dm7                AmBut for every song of laughter there was another song that cried
      G                             CThis ain't no easy weekend this is hard love


        C               G          Am           It was hard love every step of the way
        G                              F             CIt was hard to be so close to you and hard to turn away
          C                                Dm7             AmBut when all the stars in the sentimental songs dissolve away
             G                              CThere'll be nothing left to sing about but hard love


         C                 C7               G                AmSo I'll love you for your courage and your gentle sense of shame
          G                                   F                 CAnd I'll love you for your laughter and your language and your name
       C                            Dm7                AmAnd I knew it was impossible but I loved you just the same
            G                           CThough the only love I gave to you was hard love


        C                   G             AmIt was hard love it was so hard on you I know
         G                            F               CWhen the only love I gave to you was love I couldn't show
        C                                     Dm7            AmYou forgave the heart that loved you as your lover turned to go
         G                         CLeaving nothing but the memory of hard love


        C                C7                 G            AmSo I'm standing in this phone booth with a dollar and a dime
         G                               F                  CAnd I'm wondering what to say to you to ease your troubled mind
         C                                   Dm7                 AmFor the Lord's cross might redeem us but our own just waste our time
        G                                 CBut to tell the two apart there's always hard love


         C               C7             G                AmSo I'll tell you that I love you even though you're far away
          G                                 F                CAnd I'll tell you how you changed me as I lived from day to day
             C                                Dm7            AmAnd how you helped me to accept myself and I won't forget to say
             G                            CThat love is never wasted even when it's hard love


         C                  G            AmOh it's hard love but it's love all the same
      G                             F                CIt's not the stuff of fantasy much more than just a game
             C                             Dm7           AmAnd it's the only kind of miracle that is worthy of the name
         G                                   CFor the love that heals our lives is mostly hard love