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John Hardy

Here's a great bluegrass favorite which tells the story of a "bad dude" called John Hardy. Sometimes he is known as John Harty. In either case he was not a fellow you'd want mad at you. After all, he carried two guns every day and shot a man on the West Virginia line. But, who knows? Maybe the guy had it comin' to him.

*This one is popular as an instrumental but deserves to be sung by more people. Tony Rice used to do this one at a lot of his shows and few people could do it as well as he did. G and A are the most popular keys but, as always, see my pages on how to use a capo and how to transpose for more information if you need to slide it up to the key of Bb or B.

Additional Learning Resources:

Geoff Hohwald's Video Banjo Lesson: John Hardy

The Bluegrass Fakebook by Bert Casey has the Chords, Lyrics and Melody to John Hardy, along with 149 more bluegrass songs.

The Let's Jam Country & Bluegrass CD includes John Hardy

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