Tough Folks Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][A][G][A][D][A][G][A]
[D][A][G][A][D][A][G][A]

[Verse 1]
I'm [D]caught in the shad[A]ows,
[G]the American South
[A]Somewhere bet[D]ween hy
[A]pocrite and hal[G]lelu[A]jah
[D]Six [A]generations of [G]barely gettin' by
[A]Six generati[D]ons of hat[A]e,
what's it [G]to [A]ya?
When the [D]only thing [A]harder
than the [G]work is the [A]luck
[D]The outcome's as hope[A]ful
as [D]the [G]evenin' [A]news
And [D]last Novem[A]ber [G]I saw [A]firsthand
What [D]desperation [A]makes
[G]good people [A]do[G]

[Verse 2]
Life ain't [A]fair
Saddle up[D], boy, and see it t[G]hrough
Tough times don't [A]last
Tough folks do
[D][A][G][A][D][A]

[Verse 3]
[G]
[A]See I [D]come from [A]a long line
of Car[G]olina farm[A]ers
For [D]years, [A]tobacco was the [G]answer[A]
It [D]kept the lights on [A]and put
[G]food on the [A]table
'Til the [D]doctors started
[A]callin' [D]it [G]cancer[A]
So we [D]took to [A]the hills of the
[G]Blue Ridge Moun[A]tains
With a [D]harvest of [A]corn and
some [G]copper [A]line
And [D]we found you [A]can get a little
[G]slice of heav[A]en
With some [D]sugar yeast wa[A]ter
and a [G]whole lotta [A]time
[G]Life ain't fair

[Verse 4]
[A]
Saddle [D]up, boy, and see it [G]through
Tough times don't [A]last

[Interlude 1]
But tough folks do
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[A][D][A][G][A][Bm]

[Verse 5]
Where I'm from [A]a man's only [G]worth
the weight of his [D]word [Bm]and
Respect ain't [A]handed out,
it's [D]earned[Bm]
I've been runnin' [A]with my back to the
[G]wall for seventeen [D]years [F#m]now
And if it's [G]one thing that [A]I've learned,
it's [G]...

[Verse 6]
Life ain't [A]fair
Saddle up[D], boy, a[A]nd see it t[G]hrough
Tough times don't [A]last

[Interlude 2]
But tough folks do
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[A]
[D][G][Asus4][D][Asus4][A][G][A][G]

[Verse 7]
Life ain't [A]fair
Saddle [D]up , saddle [A]up[G]
Life ain't [A]fair
Saddle [D]up , saddle [G]up
Life ain't [A]fair
Saddle up[D], boy, and see it t[G]hrough
Tough times don't [A]last
But tough folks [Bm]do
[G]Tough times don't las[A]t
But tough folks [D]do