Billy Ocean, When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going (1985)
Key: :[D] (w: Wayne Anton Brathwaite, Barry James Eastmond, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Billy Ocean) (BPM: 126, 32-A) IE#1 UK#1 US#2
INTRO: [D] [Bm] [D] [Bm]
VERSE 1:
[D] I got something to
[Bm] tell you
[D] I got something to
[G] say
I'm gonna
[D] put this dream in
[Bm] motion
Never let
[D] nothing stand in my
[G] way
When the going gets
[D] tough ^
[Bm]
The ^
[A] tough gets
[D] going ^
[Bm] ^
[A]
VERSE 2:
I'm gonna
[D] get myself cross the
[Bm] river
That's the
[D] price I'm willing to
[G] pay
I'm gonna
[D] make you stand and de-
[Bm]-liver
And give me
[D] love in the old-fashioned
[G] way, woh
^
[A] Dar-^
[Bm]-lin I'll
[G] climb any mountain
^
[A] Dar-^
[Bm]-lin I'll ^
[G] do any-^
[A]-thing
PRE-CHORUS:
[D] Ooh-ooh, can I ^
[Bm] touch you ^
[A]
And
[D] do the things that lovers ^
[Bm] do ^
[A]
[D] Ooh-ooh, wanna ^
[Bm] hold you ^
[A]
I
[D] gotta get it through to ^
[Bm] you, whoa-^
[A]-ooh
CHORUS:
And when the
[D] going gets tough
(the [Bm] tough gets going)
When the
[A] going gets rough
(the [G] tough gets rough)
POST-CHORUS: [G] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
