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#] [Cm] [D#] [Cm]

VERSE 1:
[D#] I got something to [Cm] tell you
[D#] I got something to [G#] say
I'm gonna [D#] put this dream in [Cm] motion
Never let [D#] nothing stand in my [G#] way
When the going gets [D#] tough ^[Cm]
The ^[A#] tough gets [D#] going ^[Cm] ^[A#]

VERSE 2:
I'm gonna [D#] get myself cross the [Cm] river
That's the [D#] price I'm willing to [G#] pay
I'm gonna [D#] make you stand and de-[Cm]-liver
And give me [D#] love in the old-fashioned [G#] way, woh
^[A#] Dar-^[Cm]-lin I'll [G#] climb any mountain
^[A#] Dar-^[Cm]-lin I'll ^[G#] do any-^[A#]-thing

PRE-CHORUS:
[D#] Ooh-ooh, can I ^[Cm] touch you ^[A#]
And [D#] do the things that lovers ^[Cm] do ^[A#]
[D#] Ooh-ooh, wanna ^[Cm] hold you ^[A#]
I [D#] gotta get it through to ^[Cm] you, whoa-^[A#]-ooh

CHORUS:
And when the [D#] going gets tough (the [Cm] tough gets going)
When the [A#] going gets rough (the [G#] tough gets rough)

POST-CHORUS: [G#] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

BREAK: [D#] [Cm] [D#] [Cm]

VERSE 3:
I'm gonna [D#] buy me a one-way [Cm] ticket
[D#] Nothing's gonna hold me [G#] back
Your [D#] love's like a slow train [Cm] coming
And I can [D#] feel it coming down the [G#] track, whoa-ooh
[A#] Dar-[Cm]-lin I'll [G#] climb any mountain
[A#] Dar-[Cm]-lin I'll [G#] do any-[A#]-thing