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It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go\/Abraham Martin
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Emmylou Harris
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(Nancy Griffith)
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I am a backseat driver from america
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They drive to the left on falls road
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And the man at the wheels name is Shamus
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We pass a the child on a corner he knows.
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And shamus 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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There ain't no place in Belfast for that kid to go.
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And it's a hard life, it's a hard life
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It's a very hard life, it's a hard life wherever you go
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And we poison our children with hatred
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And the hard life is all that they know.
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--- Instrumental ---
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At the dairyline in Chicago
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A fat man in front of me
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He's calling black people trash to his children
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He's the only trash here I see.
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And I'm 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 see him
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They'll think that white hood's all they need.
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And it's a hard life, it's a hard life
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It's a very hard life, it's a hard life wherever you go
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And we poison our children with hatred
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And the hard life is all that they know.
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--- Instrumental ---
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I was a child of the sixties
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When dreams could be held through tears
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With Disney and Cronkite and Martin Luther
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And I belived, I believed, I believed.
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Now I'm a backseat driver from America
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And I'm not at the wheel of control
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And I am guilty, I am worn, I am the root of all evil
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And I can't drive on the left side of the road.
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And it's a hard life, it's a hard life
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It's a very hard life, it's a hard life wherever you go
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And we poison our children with hatred
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And the hard life is all that they know.
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And there ain't no place in this world for these kids to go
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'Cause it's a hard life wherever you go...
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Abraham, Martin and John
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(Richard Holler)
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Has anybody here seen my old friend Abraham
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Can you tell me where he's gone
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He freed a lotta people but it seems the good die young
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I just looked around and he's gone.
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Has anybody here seen my old friend Martin
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Can you tell me where he's gone
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He freed a lotta people but it seems the good die young
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I just looked around and he's gone.
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Has anybody here seen my old friend John
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Can you tell me where he's gone
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He freed a lotta people but it seems the good die young
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I just looked around and he's gone.
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Didn't you love the things they stood for
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Didn't they try to find some good
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In you and me and we'll be free
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Someday soon it's gonna be one day.
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Has anybody here seen my old friend Bobby
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can you tell me where he's gone
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I thought I saw him walking up over the hill
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With Abraham and Martin and John...
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