Chords for Nanci Griffith - It's a Hard Life

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