Hard Daily Life
(Dan Schatz)
There is a place at the corner of 23rd and O,
By the heating grate, where the homeless and the ragged people go.
They carry everything they own, there's seven of them but they're all alone.
It's a hard daily life when you have no place to go;
CHO: No home to live in,
No bed to sleep in,
No stove to cook on,
No shoulder to cry on,
No one to talk to,
No one will help you;
It's a hard daily life when you have no place to go.
Laura is seventeen; kicked out of her house by her father.
She never thought she'd see this poverty; now all she can do is wander,
Looking for a place to stay, some food to eat; livin' day to day,
It's a hard daily life when you have no place to go.
CHORUS
John is seventy-three; he lost his job when they forced him to retire.
Now he's on the street, homeless because it was required.
He can't find work 'cause he's too cold; now he's starvin' in the cold,
It's a hard daily life when you have no place to go.
CHORUS
BRIDGE:
These are people like you and me
This could happen to anybody
Nobody chooses to be poor,
They were walking along and someone closed the door on their lives.
There is a place at the corner of 23rd and O,
By the heating grate, where the homeless and the ragged people go.
They carry everything they own, there's a million of them but they're
all alone.
It's a hard daily life when you have no place to go;
No place to go.
copyright 1990 by Dan Schatz, Thirty-six String Music
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