Chords with lyrics
Tough People Do
Recorded by Trace Adkins
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Intro.: (
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Back in '39 she was 26, the wife of a soldier tryin' to raise four kids
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On rationed out beans and watered down milk, tryin' to keep 'em all warm with a patchwork quilt
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That great depression ended about 1945, but grandma lived to be 92
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See, tough times don't last, tough people do
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Tough people pull themselves up by the bootstraps when they hit hard luck
And they stay strong and they keep on fightin' like they don't know how to lose
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Tough times don't last, tough people do
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Those talkin' heads on CNN, say we'll never get out of this hole we're in
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The price of gas is up and the market's down and there's a bunch of empty houses in every town
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Well, I'd interrupt that program with a little headline of my own
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This just in from the old red, white and blue
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Tough times don't last, tough people do
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Tough people pull themselves up by the bootstraps when they hit hard luck
And they stay strong and they keep on fightin' like they don't know how to lose
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Tough times don't last, tough people do
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I've been out of work since mid July, my bank account's about bone dry
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Been lookin' for a job no luck so far, but I bought a little time when I sold my car
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Well, I'll go dig a ditch if that's what it takes, baby, somehow or another we'll get through
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Tough times don't last, tough times don't last
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Tough |(people do, |tough people | do |
