It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best is the debut album by American folk blues musician Karen Dalton, originally released in 1969 by Capitol Records (see 1969 in music).
The album was subsequently reissued on CD by the Koch label in 1997. Extended liner notes were written by Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders, who writes:
She was the only folk singer I ever met with an authentic 'folk' background. She came to the folk music scene under her own steam, as opposed to being 'discovered' and introduced to it by people already involved in it."
In 1999, Megaphone issued the album again, this time with new packaging, a new booklet and a DVD with archival footage.
In 2009, Light In The Attic Records, once again, reissued the album on vinyl with new packaging and liner notes.
And here are the lyrics to the song Ribbon Bow by Karen Dalton.
If I had a ribbon bow
To hide my hair
If I had a fancy sash
My own true love would find me fair
My red shoes would go dancing
Whe'er my fancy would
My love would wish
That he had taken me while he could
If I were like city girls
And fair with smile
Not a man in all these parts
Would know my heart
My red shoes would go dancing
Whe'er my fancy chose
I'd lark about the sidewalk
And wear them foreign clothes
If I were like city girls
If I had a fancy sash
If I had a ribbon bow
To hide my hair
If I had a fancy sash
My own true love would find me fair