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Date: 11/13/97; 10:50:15 PM
From: "James" 
Subject: CRD: It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go - Nanci Griffith

Words and music: Nanci Griffith
>From the album "Storms"

It?s a Hard Life Wherever You Go

I am a back[D]seat [C] driver from A[G][merica
We [D] drive to the [C] left on Ford?s [G] road.
And the [D] man at the [C] wheel?s name is [G] Shamus
We pass a [D] child on the [C] corner he [G] knows
And [D] Shamus says, ?Now [C] what chance has [G] that kid got??
And I [D] say from the [C] back, ?I don?t [G] know?
He says, ?There?s [D] barbed wire at [C] all of these [G] exits
And there ain?t [D] no place in [C] Belfast for that [G] kid to go?

Chorus:
Yes it?s a [C] hard life, it?s a hard [G/B] life, it?s a [C] very hard [G]
life
It?s a [D] hard life wher[C]ever you [G] go
And if we [D] poison our [C] children with [G] hatred
Then a [D] hard life is [C] all that they?ll [G] know
And there ain?t [D] no place in [C] Belfast for that [G] kid to go [D] [C]
[G]

Cafeteria line in Chicago
The fat man in front of me
Is calling black people trash to his children
But he?s the only trash here I see
And I?m thinking, this man wears a white hood
In the night when his children should sleep
But they?ll slip to their windows and they?ll see him
And they?ll think white hoods are all that they need

Chorus 2:
Yes it?s a hard life, it?s a hard life, it?s a very hard life
It?s a hard life wherever you go
And if we poison our children with hatred
Then a hard life is all that they?ll know
And there ain?t no place in Chicago for those kids to go
I was a child in the sixties
When dreams could be had through TV
With Disney and Cronkite and Martin Luther
And I believed, I believed, I believed
Now I?m a backseat driver from America
And I?m not at the wheel of control
And I am guilty, I am war, and I am the root of all evil
Lord, and I can?t drive on the left side of the road

Chorus 3:
Yes it?s a hard life, it?s a hard life, it?s a very hard life
It?s a hard life wherever you go
And if we poison our children with hatred
Then a hard life is all that they?ll know
And there ain?t no place in this world for these kids to go


Keep on strummin'
James
Editor
The Gospel Music Archive
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