Why Is It So Hard

Charles Bradley

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  R1:
  Why it is so hard  

  To make it in America  

  Why it is so hard  

  To make it in America
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  S1:
  A land, with milk and honey  

  A land, supposed to be built with love  

  It take lo-----ve and understanding  

  To live, and let live
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  S2:
  I was born, in Gainesville Florida 

  I traveled far and wide 

  Then I mo---ved to Brooklyn, New York 

  Had hard times, for sometime I hold on
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  R2:
  Why, it is so hard  

  To make it in America  

  I try, so hard now  

  To make it in America
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  S3:
  So I said to myself, look like nothin' gonna change 

  I got to move away from here 

  I went to upstate New York, a little town they call Poughkeepsie 

  Got me a job, to get away from all that stress
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  S4:
  But, I, couldn't get away 

  No matter how far I went 

  Look like, nothing gonna change  

  Everything still remained the same
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  R3:
  Why, is it so hard  

  To make it in America  

  I try, try so hard  

  To make it in America
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  D1:
  We gotta make a change  

  in America, help me somebody 

  We gotta make a change, in America 

  Help me somebody x