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

_ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] Thanks [G] for coming, folks.
[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 breeze
[C] One leg missing and [G] both hands free
No _ _ one's paying [C] much mind to him
The Viet [G] budget's just stretched to thin
And there's more coming back from the Mideast [C] War
We can't make [G] it here anymore
[C] That _ [G] _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ [G] _ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ [C] [G] big old building [C] was a textile mill
It fed our kids [G] and it paid our bills
But they turned us out, they closed [C] the doors
We can't [Gm] make it here [G] anymore
See [Gm] _ [G] _
_ _ those pallets piled up on the loading [C] dock?
They're just gonna sit [G] there till they rock
Cause there's nothing to ship, nothing [C] to pack
Busted concrete [G] and rusted tracks
Empty storefronts around the [C] square
There's a needle in the gutter and [G] glass everywhere
You don't come down here unless you're looking to [C] score
We [Gm] can't make [G] it here anymore
[C] The _ [G] _ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
bar's still open but man, [C] it's slow
The tip jar's light [G] and the register's low
The bartender don't have much [C] to say
The regular [G] crowd's getting thinner each [Gm] day
_ [G] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[Am] [G] Some have maxed out [C] all their credit cards
Some are working two [G] jobs and living in cars
Minimum wage [Gm] won't pay for [C] a roof
Won't pay for a drink [G] if you gotta have proof
Try it yourself, [F] Mr.
[C] CEO
See how far seven [G] and a quarter will go
Take a part-time job at one of your stores
[C] I bet you can't [Gm] make it here anymore
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [Gm] [G] There's a high school [C] girl with a bourgeois dream
Just like the pictures in the [G] magazine she found
Down on the [C] floor of the laundromat
A woman with [G] kids can forget all that
If she comes up pregnant, what'll she [C] do?
Forget [Gm] the career, [G] forget about school
Can she live on faith, live [C] on hope
High on [G] Jesus and hooked on dope
When it's way too late to just [C] say no
You can't [Gm] make it [G] here anymore
[C] Now _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I'm [G] stocking shirts in the Walmart [C] store
Just like the ones [G] we made before
Except this one came [Gm] from Singapore
I [C] guess we can't make it here [Gm] anymore
Should _ [G] _
_ [C] _ [G] I hate a people for [Gm] the shade of their [C] skin
Or the shape of their eyes, or [G] the shape I'm in
Should I hate them for [Gm] having our jobs [C] today
No, I hate the men [Gm] sent to jobs away
I _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ [G] can see them all now, they haunt [C] my dreams
All lily white [G] and squeaky clean
They've never known want, they'll never [C] know need
The shit [Gm] don't stick, [G] the kids won't bleed
The kids won't bleed in the damn little [C] wars
And we can't make it here [G] anymore
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ [Dm] _
[C] _ [G] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _
We'll [G] work for food, we'll die for [C] oil
We'll kill for [G] power and the hustler spoils
The billionaires get to pay less tax
[C] The [Gm] working poor [G] get to fall through the cracks
_ _ So let them eat jelly beans, let them eat [C] cake
Let them eat [G] shit, whatever it takes
They can join the Air Force or join the [C] Corps
If they can't make it [G] here anymore
So [C] _ [G] _ _ [E] _
[C] _ [G] _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[G] that's how it is, that's what we got
If the President wants to admit it or not
You can read it in the paper, read it on the wall
Or hear it on the wind if [Gm] you're listening at all
Get [G] out of that limo, [C] look us in the eye
Call us on the cell phone, [G] tell us all why
Dayton, Ohio, Portland, [C] Maine
Or a cotton gin [Gm] out on the great high plains
It's done, closed down along with the school
[C] And the hospital [G] and the swimming pool
Dust devils dance in the noon day heat
[C] And there's rats in the alley [G] and trash in the street
Gang graffiti on a boxcar door
We [C] can't make it here [G] anymore
Thank [C] _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
[Dm] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
you so much.
_ [Gm] I thank Jesse Scott Music for_
Thanks a lot.
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