Loudon Wainwright III – Hard Day On The Planet (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
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The dollar went down, and the President said:

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"Who's in charge, now?" I don't know, take your pick.

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A new disease every day and the old ones are coming back.

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Things are looking kind of gray, like they're going to black.

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Don't turn on the TV, don't show me them papers.

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Don't want to know he got kidnapped, or why they all raped her.

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I want to go on vacation till the pressure lets up,

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But they keep hijacking airplanes and blowing them up.
[Chorus]
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Its been a hard day on the planet

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How much is it all worth?

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Its getting harder to understand it

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Things are tough all over on earth.
[Verse 2]
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Its hot in December and cold in July

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When it rains it pours out of a poisonous sky

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In California the body counts keep getting higher

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Its evil out there, man that state is always on fire.

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Everyone has a system, but they can't seem to win

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Even Bob Geldorf looks alarmingly thin

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I got to get on that shuttle get me out of this place

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But there's gonna be warfare up there in outer space
[Chorus]
           F               Am
Its been a hard day on the planet

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How much is it all worth?

            F               Am
Its getting harder to understand it

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Things are tough all over on earth.
[Verse 3]
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I've got clothes on my back, and shoes on my feet...

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A roof over my head, and something to eat...

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My kids are all healthy and my folks are alive...

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You know, it's amazing but sometimes I think I'll survive.

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I've got all of my fingers and all of my toes...

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I'm pretty well off I guess, I suppose...

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So how come I feel bad so much of the time?

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A man ain't an island, John Dunn wasn't lying.
[Chorus]
           F               Am
Its been a hard day on the planet

C          E        Am
How much is it all worth?

            F               Am
Its getting harder to understand it

C                   E        Am
Things are tough all over on earth.
[Verse 4]
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It's business as usual; some things never change

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It's unfair, it's tough, unkind and it's strange

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We don't seem to learn; we can't seem to stop

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Maybe some explosions would close up the shop

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You know, maybe that would be fine; we would be off the hook.

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We resolved all our problems, never mind what it took.

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And it all would be over, finito, the end!

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...until the survivors started up all over again!
[Chorus]
           F               Am
Its been a hard day on the planet

C          E        Am
How much is it all worth?

            F               Am
Its getting harder to understand it

C                   E        Am
Things are tough all over on earth.

           F               Am
Its been a hard day on the planet

C          E        Am
How much is it all worth?

            F               Am
Its getting harder to understand it

C                   E        Am
Things are tough all over on earth.