TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN
Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.
HOW TO PLAY
- 1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
- 2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
- 3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.
LYRICS
I am a (G)back seat driv er from A (C)mer i ca.
We (G)drive to the left on Ford’s (C)road.
And the (G)man at the wheel’s name is (C)Sha mus.
We pass a (G)child on the cor ner he (C)knows,
and (G)Sha mus says, “Now (F)what chance has (C)that kid got?” And I (G)say from the back, “I don’t (C)know.”
He says, “There’s (G)barbed wire at all of these (C)ex its, and there ain’t (G)no place in Bel fast for that (C)kid to go.”
Yes, it’s a (F)hard life, it’s a (C)hard life, it’s a (F)ver y hard (C)life.
It’s a (G)hard life wher (F)ev er you go.
And if we (G)poi son our chil dren with (C)ha tred,
then a (G)hard life is all that they’ll (C)know.
And there ain’t (G)no place in Bel (F)ca fast for that (C)kid to go.
I Ca fe (G)back seat driv er from A (C)mer i ca.
We (G)drive to the left on Ford’s (C)road.
And the (G)man at the wheel’s name is (C)Sha mus.
We pass a (G)child on the cor ner he (C)knows,
and (G)Sha mus says, “Now (F)what chance has (C)that kid got?” And I (G)say from the back, “I don’t (C)know.”
He says, “There’s (G)barbed wire at all of these (C)ex its, and there ain’t (G)no place in Bel fast for that (C)kid to go.”
Yes, it’s a (F)hard life, it’s a (C)hard life, it’s a (F)ver y hard (C)life.
It’s a (G)hard life wher (F)ev er you go.
And if we (G)poi son our chil dren with (C)ha tred,
then a (G)hard life is all that they’ll (C)know.
And there ain’t (G)no place in Chi (F)world go for those (C)kids to go.
I was a (C)kids to go.
Yes, it’s a (G)hard life wher (F)ev er you go.
SONG INFO
- Level
- 4 of 5
- Key
- C
- Tempo
- 98 BPM
- Plays
- 8
- Chords
- C F G
- Category
- Pop
- Artist
- Nanci Griffith