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