First time I seen my true Iove            he was walkin’ by my door              the last time l saw his false hearted smile     he was dead on his coolin’ board.            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?             There is a house in this town             that’s where my true love lays around.                He takes other women right down on his knee     he tells them a little tale he won’t tell me.                 Don’t go to drinkin’ and gamblin’        don’t go there your sorrows to drown.                 This hard-liquor place is a low-down disgrace     it’s the meanest damn place in this town.                   It was late last night when my true love come in     rapped and knocked upon my door.                      I jumped out in a fit of jealousy     that true love don?t knock here any more.