Chords for Nanci Griffith - It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go

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I am a backseat _ [A] driver from _ [C] America _ _ _
[G] We drive to the left on Falls [C] Road _ _
[G] And a [G] man with two wheels named [C] Seamus _ We [G] pass a child on [F] the corner he [C] knows _ _ _
[G] And Seamus [F] says, now what chance has [C] that kid got?
And [G] I say, from the back, I [C] don't know
_ He [G] says, there's barbed wire [A] at all of these [C] _ exits _
[G] And there ain't no place in [F] Belfast for that [C] kid to go
It's [F] a hard [Em] life, it's a hard life, it's [F] a very [G] hard life
It's a hard life wherever you [C] go _ _ _ _
[G] And if we poison our children with _ [C] hatred
_ Then [G] the hard life is [F] all that's down [C] low _ _ _ _
And there [G] ain't no place in [F] Belfast [C] for that kid to go _ _ _
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[G] _ Cafeteria [F] line in [C] _ Chicago, _ _ _
[G] _ [C] fat man in front of _ me
_ He's [G] calling black [C] people trash to his _ children _ _ _
And he's the only [F] trash here I [C] see _ _ _
[G] And I'm thinking this [F] man wears [C] white wool _
[G] And the night when his children [C] sleep
_ That _ [G] they'll slip through their [F] windows and [C] they'll see him _ _
[G] And they'll think that white good's all they [C] need _ _ _
[F] It's a hard [Em] life, it's a hard life, [C] it's a very hard life
[G] It's a hard [C] life wherever you go
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And if we poison [A] our children with [C] hatred
_ Then the [G] hard life is [F] all that's down [C] low _ _ _ _
[G] And there ain't no place in [F] Chicago for [C] those kids to go _
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_ _ I was [F] a child in [C] the 60s _ _
_ [G] When dreams could be held through TV _ _ _
_ [G] With Disney [C] and _ [D] Cronkite and [C] Martin Luther _
[G] And I believed, I [G] believed, I believed
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_ Now I am the backseat [G] _
driver for [C] _ America _
_ And I am not at the wheel of control _ _ _
_ And I am guilty, I [F] am war, and I [C] am the root of all evil
Lord, [G] and I can't drive on [F] the left side of the [C] road
It's _ _ a [F] hard [C] life, it's a hard life, it's a very hard life
[G] It's a hard life [C] wherever you go _ _
_ _ And [G] if we poison our [C] children with hatred
_ _ _ [G] Then the hard life is [C] all that's down low _
_ _ And [G] there ain't no place in [C] this world for these kids to go
It's _ [G] a hard [F] life wherever you [C] go _
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