Tough Folks chords by 
American Aquarium 
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Key: D major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I'm caught in the shad ows,
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the American South
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Somewhere between hy
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pocrite and hal lelu jah
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Six generation s of barely gettin' by
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Six gener ations of hate,
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what's it to ya?
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When the only thing harder
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than the work is the luck
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The outcome's as hope ful
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as the evenin' news
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And last Novem ber I saw firsthand
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What desperation makes
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good people do
Verse 2
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Life ain't fair
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Saddle up , boy, and see it through
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Tough times don't last
Tough folks do
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Verse 3
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See I come from a long line
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of Car olina farm ers
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For years, tobacco was the answer
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It kep t the lights on and put
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food on the table
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'Til the doctors started
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callin' it cancer
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So we took to the hills of the
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Blue Ridge Moun tains
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With a harvest of corn and
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some cop per line
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And we found you can get a little
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slice of heav en
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With some sug ar yeast wa ter
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and a whole lotta time
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Life ain't fair
Verse 4
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Saddle up, boy, and see it through
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Tough times don't last
Interlude 1
But tough folks do
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Verse 5
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Where I'm from a man's only worth
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the weight of his word and
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Respect ain't handed out,
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it's earned
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I've been runnin' with my back to the
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wall for seventeen years now
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And if it's one thing that I've learned,
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it's ...
Verse 6
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Life ain't fair
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Saddle up , boy, and see it through
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Tough times don't last
Interlude 2
But tough folks do
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Verse 7
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Life ain't fair
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Saddle up , saddle up
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Life ain't fair
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Saddle up , saddle up
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Life ain't fair
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Saddle up , boy, and see it through
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Tough times don't last
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But tough folks do
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Tough times don't last
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But tough folks do
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