C F C F C F C F

[Verse 1]
C         F       C                   F
Under the sun the light may shine for all
C         F        C
Dean took off on a nations duty call
    F
Was back in December in a wooden body box
   C
He took his family with him, the memories
C                G
Can't be stopped
               C     F C F  G
These are Hard Times
               C    F C F
These are Hard Times

[Verse 2]
C         F       C                     F
Under the God his word lives beyond all talk
C               F             C
I heard about a girl, Central Park in New York
        F
She was beaten with steel bars, stones and then raped
C
Said the gang of youths "She's nothing"
C                                      G
...three quarters of her blood escaped
               C    F C G
These are Hard Times
               C
These are Hard Times

[Guitar Solo]
Bb C   Bb C   F C   F C   F C N.C.
G F G F G F C
G F G F

[Verse 3]
C              F             C                   F
These are hard times but I'm sure some have been worse
C           F                C
But I'm not poor and I'm not dying of thirst
        F
But you see it all around you each and every day
     C
Does living in hard times mean
C                              G
There's good times on the way?
               C     F C   F G
These are Hard Times
               C     F C   F G
These are Hard Times

[Outro]
G  C F C F G  C F C F
G F G F C