It's A Hard Life chords by Nanci Griffith

IT'S A HARD LIFE WHEREVER YOU GO (Nanci Griffith)
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*  Actually in C; capo 5.
*  The whole song has pretty much the same chords, illustrated by the
following pattern (the strumming is just an example, taken from the intro).
The only exception is the beginning of the chorus.

  D           C(9)         G
E 0h2-2-2-2-2-3---3-3-3-3-|3---3-3-3---3-----3-3-3-|
B 3---3-3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3-|3---3-3-3---3-----3-3-3-|
G 2---2-2-2-2-0---0-0-0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-----0-0-0-|
D 0---0-0-0-0-0h2-2-2-2-2-|0---0-0-0---0-----0-0-0-|
A ------------0h3-3-3-3-3-|0h2-2-2-2---2-----2-2-2-|
E ------------------------|0h3-3-3-3---3-----3-3-3-|
  d   d u d u d   d u d u  d   d u d   d     u d u    <--strumming

D  C(9)  G  G    D  C(9)  G  G
[intro]
        D         C(9)        G     G
I am a backseat driver ...
   D             C(9)         G    G
We drive to the left on ....
        D            C(9)            G    G
And the man at the ...
          D             C(9)        G    G
We pass a child on the ...

And Seamus says, now what ....

              C(9)              G                 C(9)      G
'Cause it's a hard life, it's ...
       D             C(9)      G    G
It's a hard life ...
          D             C(9)        G     G
And if we poison our ...
         D             C(9)               G    G
Then the hard life is all that ....
                 D            C(9)            G        G
And there ain't no place in ...

Cafeteria line in ....

And I am thinking this man wears .....

'Cause it's a hard life, it's .....

I was a child in the .....

Now I am the backseat driver .....

'Cause it's a hard life, it's ....


NOTE for a 2nd guitar:
  Judy Neuwirth (judynew@pipeline.com) tells me that Frank Christian
(a friend and backup guitarist of Nanci Griffith's) was her guitar
teacher at one point, and he said that when he toured with Nanci, he
played these chords over Nanci's D C G sequence (NO capo for Frank's
chords)...

G: x-x-12-12-10-10    F: x-x-10-10-8-8    C: x-x-5-5-5-3
                                        (also xx5533 for C)



- Adam Schneider, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu