X: 1
T: a Hard Row to Hoe
C: Mary Ann Hoberman
O: Greenwich, Connecticut
%R: somg, march
Z: Collected and edited 2014 by John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
B: GEMS The Best of the Country Dance and Song Society Diamond Jubilee Music, Dance and Song Contest 1993 p.89
M: 2/4
L: 1/16
K: C
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P: Chorus
EE | "C"G4 C3C | "F"A4 D3D | "G7"F4 B,3B, | "C"G2F2 E2 ||
w: It's a hard row, a hard row, a hard row to hoe, hoe, hoe.
DD | "C"G4 C3C | "F"A4 D3D | "G7"F4 B,2D2 | "C"C6 z2 |]
w: It's a hard row, a hard row, a hard row to hoe.
P: Verse
[| G2G2 G2C2 | "F"A2A2 A2E2 | "G7"F2F2 F2B,2 | "C"G2G2 G2F2 |
w: 1.~Love each child just like a moth-er. Love each man just like a broth-er.
"C"E2E2 E2A,2 | "F"F2F2 FF AA | "G7"E4 D3D | "C"C6 |]
w: Love your-self and one a-noth-er. It's a hard row to hoe.
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W:2.If there's laughing, then there's crying.
W:  If there's smiling, then there's signing.
W:  If there's living, then there's dying.
W:  It's a hard row to hoe.
W:
W:3.Rags or riches, gowns or tatters,
W:  Yellow sunbeams, rainy splattere,
W:  We're alive, that's all that materes,
W:  It's a hard row to hoe.