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It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go Lyrics

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It's a Hard Life Whereever You go
Nanci Griffith

I am a backseat driver from America
They drive to the left on Falls Road
The man at the wheel's mame is Seamus
We pass a child on the corner he knows
And I say from the back "I don't know"
He says "There's barbed wire at all of these exits.
And there ain't no place in Belfast for that kid to go."

Chorus

	It's a hard life
	It's a hard life
	It's a very hard life
	It's a hard life wherever you go
	If we poison our children with hatred
	The the hard life is all that they'll know
	And there ain't no place in *Belfast for these kids to go
	*Chicago *this world
	
A cafeteria line in Chicago
The fat man is in fromt of me
Is calling black people trash to his children
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 slip to their window and they see him
And they think that white hood's all they need

Repeat Chorus

I was a child in the sixties
Dreams could be held through TV
With Disney and Cronkite and Martin Luther
Oh, I believed, I believed
Now I am the backseat driver from America
A am not at the wheel of control
I am guilty, Iam war. I am the root of all evil
Lord, and I can't drive on the left side of the road

Repeat Chorus

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