Chords for James McMurtry - "We Can't Make It Here" | a Do512 Lounge Session

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_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] There's a Vietnam vet with a [C] cardboard sign, sitting there by [G] the left turn line, flag on
his wheelchair flapping in the [C] breeze, one leg missing [G] and both hands free. _
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No one's paying much mind to him, [C] the VA budget's [G] just stretched to thin, and there's more coming
back [F] from the mid-east [C] war, we can't [Gm] make it here anymore.
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_ _ _ That big old building was a textile [C] mill, it fed our kids and [G] it paid our bills, but
they turned us out and they closed the [C] doors, we [Gm] can't make it here anymore. _ _ _ _ _
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See the pallets piled up on the [C] loading dock, they're just gonna sit there [G] till they rock
cause there's nothing to ship, nothing [C] to pack, busted _ [G] concrete and rusted tracks, empty
_ storefronts around the [C] square, there's a needle in the gutter [G] and glass everywhere,
you don't come down here unless [F] you're looking [C] to score, we can't [Gm] make it here anymore. _
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_ _ _ _ _ The bar is still open but man it's [C] slow, the tip jar's light [G] and the register's low, the
bartender [Gm] don't have much to [C] say, the regular crowd's [G] getting thinner each [Gm] day. _ _
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_ _ [C] _ _ Some [G] have maxed out all their credit cards, [C] some are working two jobs [G] and living in cars,
minimum wage won't [F] pay for a [C] roof, won't pay for a drink, then [G] you gotta have proof, try
it yourself Mr.
[C] CEO, see how far _ 515 [G] an hour will go, take a part time job at one of your
stores, [C] I bet you [Gm] can't make it here anymore.
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[E] _ [G] There's a high school girl with a bourgeois [C] dream, just like the pictures [G] in the magazine
she found on the floor of the [C] laundromat, a woman with kids can [G] forget all that, if
she comes up pregnant what'll she do?
[C] _ Forget the career, [G] forget about school, can she live on faith, live on [C] hope, high on Jesus
[G] and hooked on dope when it's way too late [Gm] to just say [C] no, you can't [Gm] make it here anymore.
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_ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] Now [G] I'm stocking shirts in the Walmart [C] store, just like the ones we [G] made before, except
this one came from Singapore, [C] I guess we can't make it here [G] anymore. _ _ _ _ _
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Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin [C] or the shape of their eyes [G] or the shape I'm in?
Should I hate them for having [Gm] our jobs [C] today?
Now I hate the men [G] sent the jobs away.
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I can see them all now, they haunt [C] my dreams, all lily white [G] and squeaky clean, they'll
never know want, they'll never know [C] need, their shit [Gm] don't stink and their [G] kids won't
bleed, their kids won't bleed in the damn little [C] war, we can't [Gm] make it here [G] anymore. _
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_ _ _ [C] _ [Gm] We'll work for food, [G] we'll die [C] for oil, we'll kill for power, [G] and to us the spoils, the _
billionaires get to [C] pay less tax, the working [Gm]
poor get to fall through the cracks. _ _ _
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_ _ [C] _ _ [G] So let em eat [C] jelly beans, let em eat cake, let em eat [G]
shit, whatever it takes, they can
join the Air Force or join the [C] Corps if they can't [Gm] make it here anymore.
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[G] So that's how it is, that's what we got [C] if the president wants [G] to admit it or not, you
can read it in the paper, read [C] it on the wall, or hear it on the wind [G] if you're listening
at all, get out of that _ limo, look [C] us in the eye, call us on the cell phone, [G] tell us
all why in Dayton, Ohio, _ Portland, Maine, [C] or a cotton gin out [G] on the great high plains,
it's done closed down along with the school and [C] the hospital _ [G] and the swimming pool, _ dust
devils dance in the noonday heat and [C] there's rats in the alley [G] and trash in the street,
gang graffiti [F] on a boxcar door, _ [C] _ _ we can't make it here _ _ _ [G] _ anymore. _
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