Artist: Ritter Josh | Song: You Don't Make It Easy Babe

Artist/Band: Josh Ritter Tabs
Song: You Don't Make It Easy Babe Tab

You Don't Make It Easy Babe

capo 4th

picking scheme:
pretty much a travis-style picking

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B----------0-----0/1-------1-------------0------------
G------0-------0-------0-------0-----0-------0--------
D----0-------0-------2-------2-----0-------0----------
A-----------------------------------------------------
E--3-----3-------3-------3-------3-----3-------3------

Intro:  G...C/G...G...C/G...G...C/G...G...C/G

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here I am standing at your window again
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waiting for you to say go away or come in
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I’m your locked door’s worst knocker
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I’m your curtain’s best friend

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I’m trying hard to love you – you don’t make it easy Babe
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I’m trying hard to love you – I’m looking for an easy way

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your friends ask about me you say I can be found
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with the cheap romance novels with their spines battered down
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oh the heart has no bones you say so it won’t break
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but the purpose of loving is the pounding it takes

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I’m trying hard to love you – you don’t make it easy Babe
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I’m trying hard to love you – I’m looking for an easy way

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the ropes that have bound me leave no marks by their knots
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and though they’re your hair that don’t mean I’m not caught
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I know the sound of the handcuffs as they scrape across the floor
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but that new thing you’ve got I’ve got no clue what it’s for

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I’m trying hard to love you – you don’t make it easy Babe
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I’m trying hard to love you – I’m looking for an easy way

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with fortune’s rocks millstones you hang round my throat
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and a brick for my window weighted down with a note
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Well I hope you find someone just as hard as you come
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in this hard world sadly that’s so easily done

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I’m trying hard to love you – you don’t make it easy Babe
    Am                        D                       G-C/G-G
I’m trying hard to love you – I’m looking for an easy way
    Am                        D                      G-C/G-G
I’m trying hard to love you – you don’t make it easy Babe
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I’m trying hard to love you – There's gotta be an easy way