Tablature its a hard life wherever y - GRIFFITH NANCY

          



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  Date: 11/13/97; 10:50:15 PM

  From: "James" <Guitar_Picker@rednecks.com>

  Subject: CRD: It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go - Nanci Griffith

  

  Words and music: Nanci Griffith

  >From the album "Storms"

  

  Itâs 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 Fordâs [G] road.

  And the [D] man at the [C] wheelâs name is [G] Shamus

  We pass a [D] child on the [C] corner he [G] knows

  And [D] Shamus says, ãNow [C] what chance has [G] that kid got?ä

  And I [D] say from the [C] back, ãI donât [G] knowä

  He says, ãThereâs [D] barbed wire at [C] all of these [G] exits

  And there ainât [D] no place in [C] Belfast for that [G] kid to goä

  

  Chorus:

  Yes itâs a [C] hard life, itâs a hard [G/B] life, itâs a [C] very hard [G]

  life

  Itâs 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 theyâll [G] know

  And there ainât [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 heâs the only trash here I see

  And Iâm thinking, this man wears a white hood

  In the night when his children should sleep

  But theyâll slip to their windows and theyâll see him

  And theyâll think white hoods are all that they need

  

  Chorus 2:

  Yes itâs a hard life, itâs a hard life, itâs a very hard life

  Itâs a hard life wherever you go

  And if we poison our children with hatred

  Then a hard life is all that theyâll know

  And there ainât 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 Iâm a backseat driver from America

  And Iâm not at the wheel of control

  And I am guilty, I am war, and I am the root of all evil

  Lord, and I canât drive on the left side of the road

  

  Chorus 3:

  Yes itâs a hard life, itâs a hard life, itâs a very hard life

  Itâs a hard life wherever you go

  And if we poison our children with hatred

  Then a hard life is all that theyâll know

  And there ainât no place in this world for these kids to go

  

  

  Keep on strummin'

  James

  Editor

  The Gospel Music Archive

  http://subnet.virtual-pc.com/da567664 


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 Its a hard life wherever y, de Griffith nancy 

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