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John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man by The Carter Family - Guitar Chords

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Recorded 1928 by the original Carter family, Maybelle, Sara and AP

[Introduction]
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[Verse 1]
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John Hardy was a desperate little man,
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He carried two guns every day.
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He shot a man on the West Virginia line,
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And you oughta seen John Hardy getting away.
 
[Verse 2]
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John Hardy, he got to the East Stone Bridge,
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He thought that he would be free.
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And up stepped a man and took him by the arm,
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Saying, “Johnny, walk along with me !” 

[Verse 3] 
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He sent for his poppy and his mommy, too,
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to come and go his bail.
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But money won't go a murdering case,
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and they locked John Hardy back in jail.

[Verse 4] 
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John Hardy, he had a pretty little girl,
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that dress that she wore was blue,
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as she came skipping through the old jail hall,
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saying, “Poppy, I've been true to you!”

[Verse 5] 
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John Hardy, he had another little girl,
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that dress that she wore was red.
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She followed John Hardy to his hanging ground,
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saying “Poppy, I would rather be dead !”

[Verse 6] 
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I've been to the East, and I've been to the West ,
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I've been this wide world around,
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I've been to the river and I've been baptized,
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and now I'm on my hanging ground.

[Verse 7] 
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John Hardy walked out on his scaffold high,
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with his loving little wife by his side.
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And the last word she heard poor Johnno say,
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“I'll meet you in that sweet by-and-by. “

[Outro] 
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