Woody Guthrie (1912 - 1967) was the most important American folk music artist of the first half of the 20th century. Coming out of Oklahoma, Guthrie had firsthand knowledge of the Dust Bowl diaspora chronicled in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath. In fact, Guthrie wrote his own version of the story in a song called "Tom Joad." By the time he gained recognition in the '40s, Guthrie had written hundreds of songs, many of which remain folk standards to this day. He was also an author (Bound for Glory) and a newspaper columnist. Guthrie made some recordings for RCA in 1940, but much of his work was issued on the small Folkways label.
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Hard Ain't It Hard Lyrics
Woody Guthrie
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