Ray Charles - PNO GTR VOZ - Hard Times.pdf

Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) Words & Music by Ray Charles

A tempo q. = 58 q = q. Eb7

Slow blues

4fr

    



My moth - er told

    

        6



          G7

    

Bdim7

     

           

  



3

 



 



Baug 3fr



4

      



     

        



         

said,“Son when I’m gone,

 

 

      

 



Bbm7





me,

’fore she passed a - way;

    

4fr

Cm

3fr



  

Ab7

3            

µ ad. lib.

Eb9

      don’t for - get to pray.

  

       

         



 



          

  

Ab7

times,

     





 

4fr

             

4

Adim7 4fr

’Cos there’ll be hard



     



4fr

     

   4

 

Ebaug 5fr

2

     

  



© Copyright 1961 Progressive Music Company Incorporated, USA. Carlin Music Corporation.



  2

           

Lord,

   

 



 



Eb7

C9

B9

Bb7(b13)

4fr



 



  

2

   

3

  

thosehard

    

        

2



     



 

2



        

 

bet -ter than I?”

                



Ab7 4fr





          

Well I soon found

4

  

       







  







Bdim7 3fr

3

    

     



 





 

 

             





 





Cm



                 



Baug

When I



out

          

3fr

  

 3

just what she meant,

        

    

Eb

G7

  









4

   

       

    







Who knows

Bb7(b13)

      

 

times. Whoah, yeah.

Eb6

    



hadto pawn my clothes

2

 

   4

     

      





Bbm7

Eb9

             



     

Ebaug 5fr

      

4fr

Talk - in’ ’bout hard

    

      

Eb7

Adim7 4fr



C9

  



           

just to pay my rent.

  

Ab7

4fr

times,

     

              



 

hard

  

 



B9



 

Bb7(b13)

4fr

                  3



          

times.

     

 





            

 



Whoah, yeah.



  

   

 





Eb6





Who knows





 



       

   



3



  



             

 



    

Eb6

Sax Solo

4



 

q. = q



          

a -well abet -ter thanI?

4

                    

Bb7(b13)

 



       



10











 3

G7

Cm 3fr







3

  









   







3

3

3



  

    

 3                           3        



3

Eb/Bb

   

    Adim7 4fr

3   

 3



3

3

    

      3

    

3





    



            

Ab13 5fr

10

4fr





                  3 3 3  3 3         Piano Solo

C9

6fr

  



     





Eb9 6fr





 

    10

       3

Eb



       

10

                



3





10

  

Baug 3fr

   

6

        





5

  





3

 

  

B7b5

  

  

 

 3 3



Bb13 6fr

 





6fr





   9                  3    3           



     

4



3

 







Eb6

F9

E7b5

6fr

4fr

   







 3 3       

      



   



Eb6 5fr

   

3

 3   I

  

    



       



q = q.

had a

wo

  



  

Bbm7

Baug

3fr

    

  

          

   

my

   

4



             

and









she



Ab7





put

me





   



Adim7

4fr

  



   

              





  



4

 

Ebaug



down.

2

  

     

Eb9





mon- ey,

  

5fr

   

     



But when I lost





 



              









   

2

Cm







 





man love

   

who was al ways a - round.

      

-







Bdim7

  

4fr

       

 

G7 3fr

Ab7 6fr

4fr







Talk - in’



 ’bout



 hard

    

4fr



  





  

                    

times,







 

 

you know



  those

 5

C9 Eb7

B9 4fr

        



falsetto

2

 



  Yeah,

               

Eb6

     

   

   

Ab9

    



2



6

4fr

Yeah,

       2

Bdim7

   

 

   

Lord,

 





Cm



yeah,

 

  

  



 

 



Baug 3fr

     

 



one of thesedays,

               

Ab7 6fr

3fr

    

 

Eb6 6fr

      

G7



  





    2







               

I?

    



 



  

bet -ter than

     

E9 8fr

falsetto





      

who knows

  





Gb9

         

  



Lord,

  

   

10fr



   

 



2

hard...

Bb7(b13)

 



     

2

    



there’ll be no more

                  

 

 

 

 



sor - row; 2

  

  4

     

      

4

  

Bbm7

Eb9

Ebaug9/G

Ab7

Adim7

5fr

4fr

 4                  



when I

        

passa - way.

     

      

And no more hard

       





 

 

Eb7

4fr

times,



     





C9

   





              

I said no more

  

     



B9

 





Bb7(b13)

4fr

falsetto

        





2

 

     

hard...





Yeah,



             

   

     

   

   

    



Lord,

  







      



who knows,

 

   

  



       hey

Lord,





    



 

Slightly hurried Eb6

F7 6fr

E7 6fr

            



bet - ter than





    



    

      

Eb6 5fr

6fr







I?

rubato                     

     

             

 

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