Loudon Wainwright - Hard day on the planet Chords

_ _ _ One, two, one, two.
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [A] _ [C] The dollar went [E] down and the president's [B] sick
_ [A] [G] Who's in charge now?
I don't know, take your [Bm] pick.
_ _ [G] A new disease every day [F#] and the old ones are coming back
[A] Things are [C] looking kind of gray [E] like [G] they're gonna get black
_ Don't turn on the TV.
[B] Don't show me the paper
[A] _ _ [A] Don't want to know he got [Em] kidnapped or why they all raped him
[Am] _ [C] I want to go on [E] vacation till the pressure lets up
[Am] But they keep [E] hijacking airplanes and blowing them up.
[Am] It's been a hard day on the [Em] planet
_ [D] _ [C] _ [Em] How much is it [A] all worth?
[Am] It's getting harder
To understand it
[C] _ Things [B] are tough all over on earth
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ [A] _ It's hot in [G] December
_ cold in July
[A] _ _
When it rains [Em] it pours out of a [D#] poisonous sky
[A] _ [E] In California the body counts keep getting [B] higher
_ [A] _
[G] It's evil out there man, that [Em] state is always on fire
[A] Everyone [Am] has a system, [E] but they can't seem to win
[Am] _
Even Bob [Em] Geldof looks [G] alarmingly thin
I've got to get on that shuttle get me out of [Em] this place
_ [E] But there's gonna be warfare up there in [G] outer space
[Am] It's been a [F] hard [Am] day on the planet
_ [C] _
How much is it [A] all [Am] worth?
It's getting harder
[F] _ [Am] To understand it
_ [C] _
[Em] Things are tough all over [A] on earth
[G] I [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
[G] got clothes on my back and shoes on my feet
_ [A] _
[D] The roof over my [E] head something to [B] eat _ _
[Am] My kids are all healthy [B] and my folks are alive
[Am] _
You know, it's amazing.
But [E] sometimes I think [G] I'll survive. _
[Am] I got [G] all my fingers
[D] _ [C] All of my [Am] toes
I'm [G] pretty well off.
[E] I guess I suppose _
[Am] So how come I feel bad [E] so much of the time?
A [Am] man in an island [E] John Dunn was a lion.
[Am] It's been a [F] hard day [Am] on the planet _
[C] _ [E] How much is it [Am] all worth? _
It's getting harder
[F] _ [Am] To understand it _
Things [Em] are tough all [Am] over on earth
[E] _
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[Am] _ [G] It's business as [E] usual some things never [B] change _
[Am] It's [G] unfair and [E] unkind and unjust
And [G] it's [Am] strange
We don't seem to learn we [G] can't seem to stop
[Em] I [Am] _ suppose some [Em] explosions might close the door
And you know, maybe that would [Am] be fine
We would be [E] off the hook man _ _
[Am] _ We resolved [A] all the problems never mind [G] what it took man
[Am] And it all would be over
[E] For neat till the end
[A] Until [Am] the survivors [E] started up all over again
[Am] On [F] the [Am] planet _
_ [C] _ [E] How much is it [Am] all worth? _
It's getting harder
To understand it
[C] _ Things are [E] tough all over [Am] on earth _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ How [E] much is it all [Am] worth? _
It's getting harder
[F] _ [Am] Things _ _ _
_ [C] are tough all over on earth _
How [F] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
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[C] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [F] much [Am] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Em] is it [Am] all worth? _
It's getting [F] harder
To [Am] understand _ [C] it
Things [E] are tough all over [Am] on earth
It's business as usual [F] some things never change
It's unfair and unkind and unjust
[Am] On the planet _ _
[C] How [E] much is it all [B] worth? _
[Am] It's getting harder
[F] To [Am] understand it _
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