What You Do With What You Got Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[C][G][C][D][E][G][C][G]

[Verse 1]
A baby [C]boy
is [D]born in sub[Em]urb [G]and they
Bring him [C]home [Am]in an[D] S[G]UV
He's got a [C]yard with a [D]pool
[Em]and [G]playground
And a [C]picture- perfect
[D]family[G][C][G]
A baby [C]girl is [D]born in [Em]the city to [G]a
young [C]mother who's [D]just [G]15
She's got a [C]dress that's al[D]ways dirty
[Em]And a dead[G]- beat dad[C]
she'll [D]never [G]see

[Verse 2]
[D]Life's [G]not[C] fair from
the [G]very be[D]ginning
[C]The goo[D]d new[G]s is [C]it's not
all about [G]losing and [D]winning
[C]There are tho[D]se who have
and those [C]who have not
What [D]matters most
Is what you [C]do with what you got

[Interlude 1]
[G][C][D][Em][G][C][D][G]

[Verse 3]
The boy grows [C]up play[D]in' lots of [Em]baseball,
[G]goin' to [C]parties and cut[D]tin' class
[G]The little gir[C]l takes car[D]e of[Em]
her brothers and she
[G]Has to gro[C]w up way[D] too fas[G]t[C][D][G]
He [C]turns 20 and [D]drops out of [Em]col lege
[G]His daddy buy[C]s him a new Cor[D]vette
[G]She graduate[C]s from nur[D]sing
[Em]school [G]with
[C]33 thousand [G]dollars [Em]in d[G]ebt[Em]

[Verse 4]
[D]Life's [G]not[C] fair from
the [G]very be[D]ginning[C]
[D]The good [G]news [C]is it's not all
about [G]losing and [D]winning[C]
There are [D]those who have
and those [C]who have not
What [D]matters most is
What you [C]do with what you got

[Verse 5]
[Am]
He was driving [G]drunk one night
when he [D]lost control
[Am]She was sitting at a bus s[G]top when
he hit [D]the telephone pole
[Am]She pulled him free and did [G]all she
could 'til the am[F]bulance came
Later they [Em]told him
A woman [C]saved your life but we
[Am]never did [G]get her name
[C]

[Verse 6]
[D]Life's [G]not[C] fair from[G]
the very be[D]ginning
[C]The goo[D]d new[G]s is [C]it's not
all about [G]losing and [D]win[G]ning
[C]Lif[D]e's not[G] fa[C]ir from
the [G]very be[D]gin[C]ning
Yeah but [D]don't [G]give up[C],
it's not all about [G]losing and [D]winning
[C]There will be tho[D]se who have
and those [C]who have not
But we [D]all get to choose
What we [C]do with what we [D]got
What [C]we do with what we got

[Outro 1]
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