Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

 Hard to dig a hole

 When the ground is cold and tough

 Hard to dig a hole

 You can't go deep enough

Make some cracks with that ax

 Til your broken back is sore

 Stick that shovel in the gravel

 Poke around a little more

Chorus

 Hard to dig a hole

 With tears in your eyes

 Hard to dig a hole

 When your whole world dies

Verse 2

Hard to chisel names

On a rotten fence rail

Hard to chisel names

With a bent and rusty nail

Mother is covered

And buried in the dirt

Daughter I've got her

Buried in my heart

Bridge

Carve out a life

By earth and blood and bone

Everything you love

Leaves you all alone

Verse 3

Easy to dream

When all I see is them

Easy to dream

And not wake up again

In the blind of my mind

I see them everywhere

In the hole of my soul

I know they are nowhere