Hickory Heart Chords

Key: Db TUNING: Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb 🎸 Intro: D G D G D 🎸 Verse 1: D Bm You raised yourself when you grew up fast, G D Didn't have a choice. D Bm G D Ear to the vent, you could hear the fear in your mama's voice. D Bm G D So you ran for the cover of the woods with a knife with a white hot blade. D Bm G Cut a heart-shaped lump from a hickory shop and you made a trade. 🎸 Chorus 1: D Bm A/C# Life gets tough and the tough get tougher, D D/F# G But it makes you hard. Bm A/C# Oh, tell me what the cruel world did to you, G A D Bm G D You and your hickory heart.

🎸 Verse 2: D Bm G D You packed your past, put the weight on your back, and set out on your own. D Bm G D And you danced on tables and you danced on streets of cobblestone. D Bm G D And you lived like a soldier fighting all alone on a cold crusade. D Bm G Hoped to show the world all you pretty girls ain't all the same. 🎸 Chorus 2: D Bm A/C# Life gets tough and the tough get tougher, D D/F# G But it makes you hard. Bm A/C# Oh, tell me what the cruel world did to you, G A Bm You and your hickory heart. 🎸 Bridge: Bm A You don't let no one inside. D G I'm the fool who had to try D A To win your love. Bm A But all the passion in my chest, F#m G Giving you my very best, A G N.C. Still ain't enough to D Bm G D Help you find that human heart you left so long ago. D Bm G Oh, but deep inside you're still my wild mountain rose. 🎸 Chorus 3: D Bm A/C# Life gets tough and the tough get tougher, D D/F# G But it makes you hard. Bm A/C# Oh, tell me what the cruel world did to you, G A D You and your hickory heart. Bm A/C# Be my love, not just my lover, D G Leaving it in the dark. Bm A/C# Oh, tell me what the cruel world did to you, G A D You and your hickory heart. Bm A/C# Oh, tell me wy there's no getting through G A D G D G D To you and your hickory heart.