(Nanci Griffith)
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I am a backseat driver from America
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We drive to the left on Falls Road
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And the man at the wheel's name is Seamus
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We pass a child on the corner he knows
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And Seamus says, now what chance has that kid got
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And I say from the back, I don't know
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He says there's barbed wire at all of these exits
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And there ain't no place in Belfast for that kid to go
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'Cause it's a hard life, it's a hard life, it's a very hard life
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It's a hard life wherever you go
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And if we poison our children with hatred
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Then the hard life is all that they'll know
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Cafeteria line in Chicago
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The fat man in front of me
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Is calling black people trash to his children
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And he's the only trash here I see
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And I am thinking this man wears a white hood
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In the night when his children should sleep
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But they'll slip to their windows and they'll see him
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And they'll think that white hood's all they need
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'Cause it's a hard life, it's a hard life, it's a very hard life
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It's a hard life wherever you go
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And if we poison our children with hatred
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Then the hard life is all that they'll know
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I was a child in the Sixties
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When dreams could be held through T.V
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With Disney and Cronkite and Martin Luther
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And I believed, I believed, I believed
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Now I am the backseat driver from America
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And I am not at the wheel of control
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And I am guilty, I am war, and I am the root of all evil
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Lord, and I can't drive on the left side of the road
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'Cause it's a hard life, it's a hard life, it's a very hard life
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It's a hard life wherever you go
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And if we poison our children with hatred
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Then the hard life is all that they'll know
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And there ain't no place in this world for those kids to go
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'Cause it's a hard life wherever you go
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It's A Hard Live Wherever You Go
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| Emmylou Harris |
