Makin' The Best Of A Bad Situation chords by
Ray Stevens

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Key: D major

Verse 1
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Now, I  know a man
He's a hard workin' man
He gets up real early,
and he goes down town
And about fifteen minutes after
he's been gone
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There's a big milk truck pulls
up on the lawn
And that milkman rushes
up to the door
Where that man's wife
is waitin' in a kimona
And she plants a big ol' kiss
on his cheek and they go inside
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And that truck never moves
for an hour or two
Well it's none of my business
One day I called him aside and told
him what was goin' on
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While he was gone
And he said, "Well I guess that's so,
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but do       you know
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We're never outta' milk or cot
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tage cheese or yogurt,
Ice cream,
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or none of them other cowy things"

Verse 2
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I guess he's makin'
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the best of a bad situation
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Don't wanta make waves,
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can't you see
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He's just makin' the best
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of a bad situation
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Reckon I'd do the same if it was me
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Now I  know a man, he's an

Verse 3
educated man,
he's an alligator wrestler
He jumps right in there and grabs them long green boogers by
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whatever you grab them long green boogers by
Well, one day he's got a full
Nelson on this big alligator
When this other alligator sneaks up and
bites his right ear plumb off
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Didn't bat an eye just crawled off in
the shade and went to sleep
The alligator not the man
Well, it's none of my business
One day I said, "Well,
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it's sure too bad about that little accident that you had

Verse 4
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'Cause now your hat's gonna fall
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down over your eyes
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And you can't ever be gypsy 'cause
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you don't have no place to wear a gold earring"
He just looked me right straight
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in the eye and said,
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"Huh?"
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I guess he's makin'

Verse 5
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the best of a bad situation
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Don't wanna make waves,
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can't you see
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He's just makin' the best
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of a bad situation
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Reckon I'd do the same if it was me
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Now I  know a lady, she's

Verse 6
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a mighty fine lady
Got a heart of gold,
she wouldn't hurt a fly
She's just tryin' to get by
and keep her house in order
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But you know that her husband,
he worked so hard that he come unglued
He come unwrapped, he just snapped,
thinks he's a chicken
That's right, one of them cackling
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Colonel Sanders' types
He roosts in the bush by
the side of the house
Well it's none of my business
but one day I said
"Have you ever thought about findin' him a
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doctor who could make him well"
And she said "Well,
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I have now and then, but then again
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He don't eat much just chickenfeed and all that
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peckin' in the ground don't hurt nothin'
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Heaven knows, we can use the eggs"

Verse 7
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I guess she's makin'
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the best of a bad situation
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Don't wanna make waves,
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D D 
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can't you see
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D D 
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She's just makin' the be
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st of a bad situation
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Reckon I'd do the same if it was me
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We're all just

Verse 8

makin'

the best of a bad situation

We're all in this together you

Outro 1

and me

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