Key: D
Introduction: D G
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Success don't come easy, so they say, cause
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I got mine.
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I got it the hard way, the hard way.
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When I was five, I had to fight to keep alive.
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There was very little bread to eat..fifteen before
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I tasted meat.
#2.
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Teacher said that I had inhibitions..I was just
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another case of malnutrition.
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The hard way, ain't that the hard way?
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She let me live in the spare room, but when it
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rained the rain came through, through.
#3.
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A song in my heart, a hole in my britches..I struck
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out to find my riches.
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Didn't have no place to scatter my loot..ain't no bucks
in a birthday suit.
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The hard way..ain't that the hard way?
#4.
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Take your courage in your hands..stick to things you
understand..that's the way that's best..you will make
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success out of mess.
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Now, I drive a limousine..my shoes are keen, my suit's
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always clean.
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The hard way..I made it the hard way.
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I made it the hard way..I made it the hard way.
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I made it the hard way..I made it..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.