Chords for Nanci Griffith: It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go - Night Music

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Here now is a singer-songwriter who was once a kindergarten teacher,
now successfully making that difficult transition from classroom to barroom.
Ladies and gentlemen, Nancy Griffith. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [G] I am a backseat [Am] driver from _ America
_ We _ drive to the left on Falls Road
_ _ [G] And a man at the [Am] wheels named _ [C]
Sheamus
_ _ [A] We pass a child on [Am] the corner, he [C] knows
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Sheamus [F] says, now what chance has [C] that kid [G] got?
And I say, from the [F] back, I [C] don't know
_ _ _ He says there's barbed [A] wire at all of these [C] _ exits
_ And [A] there ain't no place in _ Belfast for that [C] kid to go _ _
Cause it's a [Am] hard life, _ [C]
it's a [G] very hard life
[G] It's a hard life [C] wherever you go _ _ _ _
And [G] if we poison our [F] children with _ [C] hatred _ _
In a [G] hard life it's [F] all that they'll know
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And [A] there ain't no place in [Am]
Belfast for that kid to [C] go _ _
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A [A] cafeteria line in Chicago _ _
_ [G] The fat man [A] in front of _ me _
Is [D] calling black people [Am] trash to his [C] cheer gang
_ _ [A] And he's the only [Am] trash here I [C] see _
_ [G] And I'm thinking this [Dm] man wears [C] a white fur
_ [G] In the night whose [F] children should [C] sleep _
_ [G] But they'll slip to their [F] windows and they'll [C] see him
[G] And they'll think that _
[F] whitewood's all they [C] needed _
_ Cause it's a [F] hard _
[C] _ life, it's [F] a very [C] hard life
[G] It's a hard life [F] wherever you go
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_ [G] And if we poison our children with [C] hatred _
_ [G] In a hard life [F] it's all that they'll [C] know _ _
_ [G] And there ain't no place in [Am] Chicago for those [C] kids to go
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_ If I was a [E] child in the _ _ 60s
_ [G] _ Dreams could be [Am] held through [C] TV _ _
_ _ [G] With Disney and [Am] _
Cronkite and [C] Martin Luther
_ [A] And I believed, I believed, I believed
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_ [G] Now I am the backseat [F] driver from _ [C] America _
_ [G] And I am not at [F] the wheel of [C] control _ _
_ [A] And I am guilty, I am war and I am [C] the root of all evil
Lord and [G] I can't drive on the [F] left side of the road
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_ Cause it's a [Am] hard life, it's [C] a very _ [F] _ _
[C] hard life
[G] It's a hard life [Am] wherever you [C] go _ _
_ [G] And if we poison our children with [C] hatred _
_ [A] In a hard life it's all that they'll [C] know
And [G] there ain't no place in this [Am] world for these kids to [C] go _
_ [G] Cause it's a hard life [Am] wherever you [C] go _ _ Thank _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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