It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go-Irish Music Players

[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 - Irish Music Players [00:16.72]I am a backseat driver from America [00:19.30] [00:21.02]They drive to the left on falls road [00:23.63] [00:25.24]The man at the wheel's name is Shamus [00:27.80] [00:29.12]Pass a child on the corner he knows [00:31.65] [00:33.69]Shamus says [00:34.49]Now what chance has that kid got [00:36.39] [00:37.56]And I say from the back [00:39.49]I don't know [00:39.95] [00:41.67]He says [00:41.95]There's barbed wire at all these exits [00:43.95] [00:45.95]There ain't no place in Belfast for that kid to go [00:49.63] [00:50.17]It's a hard life hard life [00:52.27]It's a very hard life [00:53.54] [00:54.30]It's a hard life wherever you go [00:56.76] [00:58.42]If we poison our children with hatred [01:00.86] [01:02.58]Then the hard life is all that they'll know [01:04.94] [01:06.72]And there ain't no place in Belfast for that kid to go [01:10.58] [01:19.51]A cafeteria line in Chicago [01:21.84] [01:23.80]The fat man in front of me [01:25.83] [01:27.75]Is calling black people trash to his children [01:30.21] [01:32.03]And he's the only trash here I see [01:34.38] [01:36.41]And I'm thinking this man wears a white hood [01:39.20] [01:40.38]In the night when the children should sleep [01:42.68] [01:44.51]But they'll slip to their window and they'll see him [01:47.45] [01:48.71]And they'll think that white hood's all they need [01:51.18] [01:52.85]It's a hard life hard life [01:55.13]It's a very hard life [01:56.46] [01:57.11]It's a hard life wherever you go [01:59.82] [02:01.25]If we poison our children with hatred [02:03.62] [02:05.40]Then the hard life is all that they'll know [02:07.89] [02:09.52]And there ain't no place in Chicago for those kids to go [02:13.07] [02:56.05]I was a child in the sixties [02:58.50] [03:00.19]Dreams could be held through TV [03:02.31] [03:04.11]With Disney and Cronkite and martin Luther [03:07.13] [03:08.12]And I believed I believed I believed [03:10.40] [03:12.38]Now I am the backstreet driver from America [03:15.44] [03:16.98]I am not at the wheel of control [03:18.94] [03:20.85]I am guilty I am war I am the root of all evil [03:24.12] [03:25.03]Lord I can't drive on the left side of the road [03:27.50] [03:29.15]It's a hard life hard life [03:31.37]It's a very hard life [03:32.76] [03:33.38]It's a hard life wherever you go [03:35.75] [03:37.50]If we poison our children with hatred [03:39.95] [03:41.66]Then the hard life is all that they'll know [03:44.08] [03:45.91]It's a hard life hard life [03:48.02]It's a very hard life [03:50.10]It's a hard life wherever you go [03:52.46] [03:54.26]If we poison our children with hatred [03:56.56] [03:58.53]Then the hard life is all that they'll know [04:01.06] [04:02.57]And there ain't no place in this world for [04:04.81]These kids to go