Chords for Tony McManus: Hard Love - Canadian Guitar Festival, 2010

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I remember growing up, love, like it was only yesterday _
[B] _ Mom and Daddy tried their [E] best to guide me on my [Em]
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But the hard times and the liquor drove the easy love [C#m] away _
[E] The only [B] love I ever knew [E] was hard [B] _
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_ [E] It was hard love every hour of [C#m] the day
[B] From Christmas to my birthday [E] was a million [Em] years away
And the fear [B] that came between them it drove [E] the tears into my [B] play
It was loving Daddy's house [E] but it was hard [B] love
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_ _ And I recall a gentle courtesy he showed me as [C#m] I tried
[B] To dissemble in politeness all [E] the love I [E] felt inside
But for every song [B] of laughter there was another [C#] song that cried
[E] Oh, this ain't no easy weekend, this [A] is [E] hard love
Oh, it's _ hard love every step [C#] of the way
_ It was hard to be so close to you [E] and hard to turn away
But when all the stars and the sentimental songs [C#m] dissolve today
[B] There'll be nothing left to sing about [E] but hard love
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So I love you for your courage and your gentle sense of shame
And I [B] love you for your laughter [E] and your language [B] and your name
Though I knew it was impossible but I loved you just the same
But the only love I gave to [F#] you was hard [E] love _ _
It was hard love, it was so hard on [C#] you I know _
But the only love I gave to [E] you was love I [Em] couldn't show
You forgave the heart that loved you as your lover turned to gold
Leaving nothing but the memory [A] of [E] hard love _ _ _
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_ _ _ So now I'm standing in this phone booth with a dollar and a dime
And I am [B] wondering what to say to you to ease your troubled mind
[B] Love lost, lost might redeem us but a wrong just [C#m] wastes our time _
[B] And to tell the two apart is always hard [E] love _
So I'll tell you that I [E] love you even though I'm far away
[B] And I'll tell you how you've changed me [E] as I live from day to day
[B] And how you've helped me to accept myself but I won't forget to [E] say
That love is [B] never wasted even when [A] it's hard [E] love
Oh it's hard love but it's love [C#m] just the same
[B] It's not the stuff of fantasy [E] much more than just a game
And it's the only kind of miracle that is worthy [C#m] of the name
_ _ [D#] _ _ The stuff [B] that heals our life [E] is always hard love _ _
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