This Hard Land chords by Bruce Springsteen

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

Key: FF

Difficulty: Novice

Tuning is EADGBD (sorta like Drop D MajorD but you tune the high E MajorE down to D MajorD instead of the low E MajorE).
Capo on the 3rd fret.

This is how he plays it live solo acoustic, my favorite performance being the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BDBWv3RYRY

D MajorD - xx0230
G+G - 300230
A7A7 - x02030

Intro:

D MajorD G+G A7A7 D MajorD G+G (x2)

D MajorD G+G D MajorD

Verse 1:

D MajorD     G+G       A7A7
Hey there mister can you tell me what happened
    D MajorD       G+G  D MajorD
to the seeds I've sown
D MajorD            G+G
Can you give me a reason sir
A7A7            D MajorD
as to why they've never grown
       G+G         D MajorD
They've just blown around from town to town
       A7A7         D MajorD
Till they're back out on these fields
G+G        D MajorD
Where they fall from my hand
A7A7           D MajorD       G+G  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD
Back into the dirt of this hard land

Verse 2:

D MajorD        G+G
Now me and my sister
A7A7        D MajorD     G+G  D MajorD
from Germantown we did ride
D MajorD      G+G
We made our bed sir
A7A7          D MajorD
from the rock on the mountainside
     G+G          D MajorD
We been blowin' around from town to town
    A7A7          D MajorD
Lookin for a place to stand
        G+G
Where the sun burst through the clouds
  D MajorD
to fall like a circle
    A7A7           D MajorD       G+G  D MajorD
Like a circle of fire down on this hard land

Verse 3:

D MajorD       G+G          A7A7
Now even the rain it don't come 'round
        D MajorD         G+G  D MajorD
It don't come 'round here no more
D MajorD           G+G
And the only sound at night's
A7A7           D MajorD
the wind slammin' the back porch door
G+G               D MajorD
It just stirs you up like it wants to blow you down
A7A7              D MajorD
Twistin' and churnin' up the sand
     G+G          D MajorD
Leavin' all them scarecrows lyin' face down
A7A7            D MajorD       G+G  D MajorD
Face down in the dirt of this hard land

Interlude:

D MajorD G+G A7A7 D MajorD G+G (x2)

G+G D MajorD A7A7 D MajorD G+G (x2)

G+G D MajorD G+G D MajorD

Verse 4:

D MajorD               G+G
From a building up on the hill
       A7A7           D MajorD       G+G  D MajorD
I can hear a tape deck blastin' "Home on the Range"
D MajorD        G+G
I can see them Bar-M choppers
A7A7            D MajorD
sweepin' low across the plains
   G+G            D MajorD
It's me and you Frank we're lookin' for lost cattle
   A7A7                 D MajorD
Our hooves twistin' and churnin' up the sand
    G+G            D MajorD
We're ridin' in the whirlwind searchin' for lost treasure
   A7A7           D MajorD
Way down south of the Rio Grande
    G+G               D MajorD
We're ridin' cross that river in the moonlight
  A7A7        D MajorD       G+G  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD
Up onto the banks of this hard land

Verse 5:

D MajorD          G+G
Hey Frank won't ya pack your bags
A7A7              D MajorD      G+G  D MajorD
And meet me tonight down at Liberty Hall
D MajorD     G+G
Just one kiss from you my brother
A7A7        D MajorD
and we'll ride until we fall
    G+G
We'll sleep in the fields,
    D MajorD
we'll sleep by the rivers
      A7A7            D MajorD
And in the morning we'll make a plan
          G+G
We'll if you can't make it
         D MajorD
Stay hard, stay hungry, stay alive
    A7A7
If you can
              D MajorD       G+G  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD
And meet me in a dream of this hard land

Outro:

D MajorD G+G A7A7 D MajorD G+G (x2)

G+G D MajorD A7A7 D MajorD G+G (x2)

D MajorD