From: RICKL1@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: alt.music.byrds
Subject: Hard Times       Desert Rose Band     Chords/Words
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 23:56:28 GMT

please post corrections

Desert Rose Band    Hard Times   written by Chris Hillman
                                            Bill Wildes
                                            Jon Bradford

Bb    C        F            Dm
Hard times can hold us down forever
Bb    C        F           F7
Hard times are gonna fade away.
Bb   C            F                Dm
Hard times we can let them stop us darlin'
Bb         C           F
There will be a better day.
F                                               Bb
Tell me Love me These days I need you more then ever before
           F
don't give up on me.
                                              Bb
G
Nobody else - could ever love you more - than I - do
       F
We all need someone.
           C                 F                Bb
Someone to believe in - this life that we are sharing
           F
That's all love and trust.
              C                 F             Bb
If it takes a lifetime - I will never stop my trying
                  F
there's a better life for us.
Bb    C        F            Dm
Hard times can hold us down forever
Bb    C        F           F7
Hard times are gonna fade away.
Bb   C            F                Dm
Hard times we can let them stop us darlin'
Bb         C           F
There will be a better day.
Bb         C           F
There will be a better day.

SOLO

F                                                         Bb
High as the wild birds fly - wild and free that's how I dream
                 F
I got to keep on dreaming
F                                Bb
We can have - what we cannot see tomorrow
              F
On a highest mountain.
              C                  F                   Bb
On a highest mountain - we can watch those wild bird fly
        F
We can drift away.
         C                 F                    Bb
Find our own new sky - as long as you are with me
                 F
I'll never stop dreaming.
Bb    C        F            Dm
Hard times can hold us down forever
Bb    C        F           F7
Hard times are gonna fade away.
Bb   C            F                Dm
Hard times we can let them stop us darlin'
Bb         C           F   Dm
There will be a better day.
Bb         C           F
There will be a better day.


From The Desert Rose Band
1987 Curb/MCA Records
Bar None Music(BMI)

From Out Of The Woodworks
Rounder Records 1997