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Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
Words & Music by Ray Charles & Mitch Mitchell
Recorded by Ray Charles, 1961
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My mother told me before she passed away,
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Said, "Son, when I'm gone, don't forget to pray
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'Cause there'll be hard times, Lord those hard times --
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Who knows better than I?"
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Well I soon found out just what she meant
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When I had to pawn my clothes just to pay the rent;
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Talkin' 'about hard times, hard times
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Who knows better than I?
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I had a woman, Lord, who was always around,
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But when I lost my money, she put me down.
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Talkin' 'bout hard times, you know those hard times,
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Yeah, Lord, who knows better than I?
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Lord, one of these days, there'll be no sorrow
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When I pass away,
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And no more hard times,
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Yeah, yeah, who knows better than I?
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Yeah, Lord, who knows better than I?
*Thanks to recent visitor Kok Kum Hoong both for the suggestion, and for assistance in locating a version to transcribe.
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.
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