Hard Life chords by Bonnie Prince Billy

Chords with lyrics

Hard Life by Bonnie Prince Billy

I don't normally tab songs out myself but I couldn't find this anywhere so I thought I'd
it a go and work it out. Some of the lyrics might not be right, but they're as close as
can tell. In a few places where there's F minorFm it sometimes sounds like he's playing an F.

Chords:
  EADGBE
D MajorD  xx0232
A augmentedA  x02220
B minorBm 224432
G+G  355433 or 320003
E minorEm 022000
F# minorF#m 244222
C minorCm 335543
Eb MajorEb 668886
Bb majorBb 113331
FF  133211
F minorFm 133111
G minorGm 355333

Chorus:

D MajorD
And it's a hard life
        A augmentedA
For a man with no wife
      B minorBm     G+G
Babe it's a hard life
       D MajorD
God makes you live
D MajorD
But without it
   A augmentedA
Don't doubt it
        B minorBm   G+G
You don't even have
       D MajorD
Your tears to give


Verse 1:

D MajorD
I wake up and I'm fine
            E minorEm
With my dreaming still on my mind
         G+G
But it don't take long you see
         D MajorD
For the demons to come and visit me
D MajorD
And I've got my problems
           E minorEm
Sometimes love don't solve them
        G+G F# minorF#m G+G
And I end each day
   D MajorD
In a song

Chorus:

D MajorD
And it's a hard life
        A augmentedA
For a man with no wife
      B minorBm    G+G
Lord it's a hard life
       D MajorD
God makes you live

But without it
      A augmentedA
Baby don't doubt it
        B minorBm   G+G
You don't even have
       D MajorD
Your tears to give


Verse 2:

D MajorD
And oh I'm a hard man
       E minorEm
To live with sometimes
        G+G
Maybe it ain't in me
       D MajorD
To make you a happy wife of mine

And maybe you'll kill me
       E minorEm
Honey I don't blame you
       G+G  F# minorF#m G+G
If I was in your place
         D MajorD
Maybe that's what I would do


C minorCm          Bb majorBb
But I ain't breathing, Let me breath
C minorCm     Bb majorBb
Let me go, Let me leave
G minorGm        C minorCm
I don't know but I might lose
Eb MajorEb       F minorFm
I might bump my head to blow a fuse


C minorCm    Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
So let me go
C minorCm  Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
Lay down
C minorCm  Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
On my own
C minorCm    Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
Let me drown
C minorCm      Eb MajorEb
Let me go
          FF
Go where you don't know


Outro:

Bb majorBb   FF   G minorGm Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb x2