Chords for Loudon Wainwright III, A Hard Day On The Planet, Live

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