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Hard Tack Come Again No More by Josiah Fowler
Hard Tack Come Again No More
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:3rd fret
[Intro]
D G D G D A D
[Verse 1]
D G D
Let us close our game of poker, take our tin cups in our hand
A A7 D
As we all stand by the cook's tent door
G D
As dried mummies of hard crackers are handed to each man.
G D A D
O, hard tack, come again no more!
[Chorus]
D G D
'Tis the song, the sigh of the hungry:
E7 A A7
"Hard tack, hard tack, come again no more."
D G D
Many days have you lingered upon our stomachs sore.
G D A D
O, hard tack, come again no more!
[Verse 2]
D G D
'Tis a hungry, thirsty soldier who wears his life away
A A7 D
In torn clothes-his better days are o'er.
G D
And he's sighing now for whiskey in a voice as dry as hay,
G D A D
"O, hard tack, come again no more!"
[Verse 3]
D G D
'Tis the wail that is heard in camp both night and day,
A A7 D
'Tis the murmur that's mingled with each snore.
G D
'Tis the sighing of the soul for spring chickens far away,
G D A D
"O, hard tack, come again no more!"
[Verse 4]
D G D
But to all these cries and murmurs, there comes a sudden hush
A A7 D
As frail forms are fainting by the door,
G D
For they feed us now on horse feed that the cooks call mush!
G D A D
O, hard tack, come again once more!
[FINAL CHORUS]
D G D
'Tis the dying wail of the starving:
E7 A A7
"O, hard tack, hard tack, come again once more!"
D G D
You were old and very wormy, but we pass your failings o'er.
G D A D
O, hard tack, come again once more!
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