It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go-Wild Colonial Bhoys

[ti:It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go] [ar:Irish Songs] [al:St Patrick's Day Songs - 50 Irish Songs - Irish Party Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go - Wild Colonial Bhoys [00:16.67]I am a backseat driver from America [00:19.25] [00:20.97]They drive to the left on falls road [00:23.58] [00:25.19]The man at the wheel's name is Shamus [00:27.75] [00:29.07]Pass a child on the corner he knows [00:31.60] [00:33.64]Shamus says [00:34.44]Now what chance has that kid got [00:36.34] [00:37.51]And I say from the back [00:39.44]I don't know [00:39.90] [00:41.62]He says [00:41.90]There's barbed wire at all these exits [00:43.90] [00:45.90]There ain't no place in Belfast for that kid to go [00:49.58] [00:50.12]It's a hard life hard life [00:52.22]It's a very hard life [00:53.49] [00:54.25]It's a hard life wherever you go [00:56.71] [00:58.37]If we poison our children with hatred [01:00.81] [01:02.53]Then the hard life is all that they'll know [01:04.89] [01:06.67]And there ain't no place in Belfast for that kid to go [01:10.53] [01:19.46]A cafeteria line in Chicago [01:21.79] [01:23.75]The fat man in front of me [01:25.78] [01:27.70]Is calling black people trash to his children [01:30.16] [01:31.98]And he's the only trash here I see [01:34.33] [01:36.36]And I'm thinking this man wears a white hood [01:39.15] [01:40.33]In the night when the children should sleep [01:42.63] [01:44.46]But they'll slip to their window and they'll see him [01:47.40] [01:48.66]And they'll think that white hood's all they need [01:51.13] [01:52.80]It's a hard life hard life [01:55.08]It's a very hard life [01:56.41] [01:57.06]It's a hard life wherever you go [01:59.77] [02:01.20]If we poison our children with hatred [02:03.57] [02:05.35]Then the hard life is all that they'll know [02:07.84] [02:09.47]And there ain't no place in Chicago for those kids to go [02:13.02] [02:56.00]I was a child in the sixties [02:58.45] [03:00.14]Dreams could be held through TV [03:02.26] [03:04.06]With Disney and Cronkite and martin Luther [03:07.08] [03:08.07]And I believed I believed I believed [03:10.35] [03:12.33]Now I am the backstreet driver from America [03:15.39] [03:16.93]I am not at the wheel of control [03:18.89] [03:20.80]I am guilty I am war I am the root of all evil [03:24.07] [03:24.98]Lord I can't drive on the left side of the road [03:27.45] [03:29.10]It's a hard life hard life [03:31.32]It's a very hard life [03:32.71] [03:33.33]It's a hard life wherever you go [03:35.70] [03:37.45]If we poison our children with hatred [03:39.90] [03:41.61]Then the hard life is all that they'll know [03:44.03] [03:45.86]It's a hard life hard life [03:47.97]It's a very hard life [03:50.05]It's a hard life wherever you go [03:52.41] [03:54.21]If we poison our children with hatred [03:56.51] [03:58.48]Then the hard life is all that they'll know [04:01.01] [04:02.52]And there ain't no place in this world for [04:04.76]These kids to go