Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Chords

Written by: Skip JamesSkip James
Released: 1931
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNftrsCMiQs&ab_channel=abanks47
Blues as good as Blues can get!!
Key of Eflat
You can play E and tune down half a step from standard tuning
or
Capo 1st Fret and play D chord and do the following:
 
[Intro]
D D7sus D G D
 
[Verse 1]
D             D7sus          D
Hard times is here and everywhere you go
D7sus      D               D7sus  D
Times are harder than ever been before
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
 
[Instrumental]
Edim D#dim Ddim D
 
[Verse 2]
D                          D7sus        D
You know that people they are driftin from door to door
D7sus                    D             D7sus           D
But they can't find no heaven, I don't care where they go
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
 
[Instrumental]
Edim D#dim Ddim D
 
[Verse 3]
D                        D7sus                D
People, if I ever can get up off of this old hard killin floor
D7sus                 D        D7sus   D
Lord, I'll never get down this low no more
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
 
[Instrumental]
Edim D#dim Ddim D
 
[Verse 4]
D                  D7sus             D
When you hear me singin' this old lonesome song
D7sus                    D            D7sus       D
People, you know these hard times can last us so long
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
 
[Instrumental]
Edim D#dim Ddim D
 
[Verse 5]
D                        D7sus         D
You know, you say you had money, you better be sure
D7sus                        D          D7sus       D
Lord, these hard times gon' kill you, just drag on slow
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
 
[Outro]
D D7sus D G D
 
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
D   D7sus  D
mmm  mm   mmm
 
Edim D#dim Ddim D
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