Hard Time Blues

Scott Anderson

Am C Am C F

Times are hard all around; I can’t get my feet on solid ground

D F G C

I picked up that shovel and I moved that old steam powered train

Am C

All of the years that I worked on the line, lord

Am C F

You’d think by now I’d have a dollar or a dime

D F G C

I’m just as poor as when I started at the A W T

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F Em Am

I’ve got the hard time blues

F C F D

From the empty in my pockets to the holes in my shoes

F G C (Am F G C )

I’ve got the hard time blues (I’ve got the hard time blues)

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Am C

High lonesome sound of the boxcars at night

Am C F

Cutting through the pines on the Georgia countryside

D F G C

I’ll ride the flagman until the day they bury me

Am C Am C F

Times are hard all around; I can’t get my feet on solid ground

D F G C

I picked up that shovel and I moved that old steam powered train

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