Chords for James McMurtry "We Can't Make It Here"

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_ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ There's a Vietnam vet with a cardboard sign sitting nearby the left turn lane.
Flag on his wheelchair flapping in the [D] breeze.
One leg [A] missing and both hands free.
_ _ No one's [G] paying much mind to [A] him.
The V8 budget's just stretched a bit.
Now there's more coming [G] back from the mid [A]-East war.
We can't make it here anymore. _ _ _ _ _
That big old building was a textile [D] mill.
It fed our [A] kids and it paid our bills.
When they turned us [G] out, they closed the doors.
[A] We can't make it here anymore.
_ _ _ _ _ _ See the pallets piled [G] up on a loading dock.
[D] They're just gonna [A] sit there until they rock.
Cause there's nothing to shell, nothing to pack.
[F#m] Just a bunch of [A] concrete and rusted tracks.
Empty storefronts around the square.
[D] There's a needle in the [A] gutter and glass everywhere.
You don't come down here unless you're looking to score.
[F#m] We [A] can't make it here anymore. _ _
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_ _ _ _ The bar's still open but man it's [D] slow.
The tip jar's [A] light and the register's low.
The bartender don't [G] have much to say.
[D] The regular crowd's [A] getting thinner each day. _ _
Some have maxed out all their credit cards.
[D] Some are working two [A] jobs and living in cars.
Minimum wage [G] won't pay for a roof.
[F#m] Won't pay for a drink [A] if you gotta have proof.
Strat yourself [G] Mr.
CEO.
[D] See how far back fifteen [A] an hour will go.
Take a part time [G] job at one of your stores.
I [F#m] bet you can't [A] make it here anymore.
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ There's a high school girl [G] with a [D] bourgeois dream.
Just like the pictures [A] in the magazines.
She found on the floor [G] of the laundromat.
[D] The one with kids can [A] forget all that.
If she comes up pregnant [G] what'll she do?
[D] Forget the [A] career?
Forget about school?
Can she live on faith?
Live on [D] hope?
High on [A] Jesus and what don't do?
When it's way too [C] late to just say [D] no.
You [C] can't make [A] it.
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_ _ [C] [A] I'm stocking shirts in the [G] Walmart [D] store.
Just like the [A] ones we made before.
Except this one [G] came from [A] Singapore.
[D] I guess we can't make it [A] here anymore. _ _ _ _ _
Should I hate the [G] people for the shade of their [D] skin?
Or the shape of their [A] eyes?
Or the shape I'm in?
Should I hate them for [G] having hard jobs today?
[D] Now I hate the [A] men who send their jobs away. _ _ _ _ _ _
I can see them all now.
They haunt my [D] dreams all lily white and [A] squeaky clean.
They never know [G] loss.
Now they never know [D] need.
The [A] shade don't stick and the kids won't bleed.
The kids won't bleed in their damn little [D] war.
We [A] can't make it here anymore.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] We'll work for [C] food.
We'll die for [D] oil.
We'll [Am] kill for [A] power.
That's the spoils.
The billionaires get to [G] pay less [A] taxes.
The working poor get to mow through the cracks.
_ _ So let em make jelly beans.
Let em make [D] cake.
Let em make [A] shit.
Whatever it takes.
They can join the Air [G] Force or join the Corps
[D] if they [E] can't make it [A] here anymore. _ _ _ _ _
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[A] So that's how it [C] is.
That's what we [D] got
if the President [A] wants to admit it or not.
You can read it in a [G] paper.
Read it on a [D] wall.
Hear [Am] it on the [A] wind if you're listening at all.
Get out of that level and look us in the [D] eye.
Call us on a [A] cell phone.
Tell us all why.
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