Hard Times In America chords by
Willie Nile
Willie Nile

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Key: D minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I wrote this song about, I don't know,
a dozen years ago.
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It's more true now than
when I wrote it.
It's called Hard Times in America.
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I woke up this morning
with a pounding in my brain
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And half a dozen roaches
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crawling down my window tank
Got no food in the kitchen,
I can't afford the rent
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I had some money yesterday,
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but I don't know where it went
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I couldn't find a job,
I could not get a loan
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I could not pay the bills,
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so they took back my telephone
My girlfriend Josephine
gave me back my ring
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She said, baby,
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till you get some dough,
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you can forget about the wild thing
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Hard times in America
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America, America
The farmer down the road,
he never did no harm
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But he could not make the payments
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so they auctioned off his farm
All across the heartland,
from Mexico to Maine
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People out of work,
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locked up in a human chain
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Hard times in America
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Hard times in America
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Hard times in America
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Hard times in America
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They say it's getting better,
but closing the gap
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You know as well as I do,
that's just a load of crap
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The rich are getting rich,
the poor are staying poor
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I do believe the Grim Reaper
knocking at the door
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Hard times in America
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Hard times in America
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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The widow next door,
the once a blushing bride
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Now a pile of skin and bone,
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afraid to go outside
Where hustlers and pimps
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and murderers have been
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Dressed in rags and feathers
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on the outside lookin' in
People eatin' garbage,
people drinkin' rain
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Sleepin' on the sidewalks
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in a cardboard hurricane
Some are drinkin' whiskey,
some are takin' drugs
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Victims of a society
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that's workin' out the funds
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Hard times in America
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Hard times in America
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Hard times in America
Interlude 2
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Verse 3
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One more time!
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All around, all around
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Jimmy Bovino, Andy York, Brad Elberta,
Rich Pagano, Frankie Lee,
my name is Hank Williams.

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