Hi Heather,
I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but it might be.
IT'S A HARD LIFE WHEREVER YOU GO
By Nanci Griffith
1. I am a backseat driver from America
We drive to the left on Falls Road.
And the man at the wheel's name is Seamus,
We pass a child on the corner he knows.
And Seamus says "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.
CHORUS 1: '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 Belfast for that kid to go.
2. 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'm 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.
CHORUS 2: '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.
3. I was a child in the sixties
When dreams could be held through TV
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.
CHORUS 3: '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.
Happy New Year!
Kevin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uynZmOt31ls
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