Its A Hard Life Chords by Nanci Griffith | Songsterr Tabs with Rhythm

Capo 5th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

d d u d u d d u d u d d u d d u d u <--strumming

D C G G D C G G

Intro

I am a bDackseat drCiver from AmericaG G

We Ddrive to the lCeft on Falls Road G G

And the Dman at the whCeel's name is Seamus G G

We pass a Dchild on the cCorner he knows G G

And Seamus says, now what chance has that kid got

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

'Cause it's a Chard life, it's a hard Glife, it's a very Chard life G

It's a Dhard life wherCever you go G G

And if we Dpoison our chiCldren with hatredG G

Then the Dhard life is aCll that they'll know G G

And there ain't nDo place in BeClfast for that kid toG go G

Cafeteria line in Chicago

The fat man in front of me

Is calling black people trash to his children

And he's the only trash here I see

And I am 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 that white hood's all they need

'Cause 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 the 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 held through T.V.

With Disney and Cronkite and Martin Luther

And I believed, I believed, I believed

Now I am the backseat driver from America

And I am 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

'Cause 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 the hard life is all that they'll know

And there ain't no place in this world for those kids to go

'Cause it's a hard life wherever you go

G: x-x-12-12-10-10 F: x-x-10-10-8-8 C: x-x-5-5-5-3

(also xx5533 for C)