Chords for "MAKING THE BEST OF A BAD SITUATION" Performed by Tom Rush

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I'm gonna dedicate this song to myself.
[Am] _ _
I'm making the best of a bad [G] situation.
[E] _ _ _
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[G#m] _ [A] _ [D] _ [C#m] Well _ _ [G] _
[E] _ _ _ _ I know a man, he's [B] a hard-working man.
He [Bm] gets up early and he [E] goes downtown.
About 15 minutes after he's been gone,
there's a big milk truck pulls up on the lawn.
That milk man dashes up to the door
where that man's wife is waiting in a kimono,
puts a big [G#] old kiss on his cheek, [E] and they go inside. _ _ _ _ _
Well that truck never moves for an hour or two,
now that's none of my [Cm] business.
[F#] _
[E] _ _ [G#] [Em] But one [E] day, _ _ _ I took him aside and I told him
what was going on while he was gone.
_ And he said, well, _ _ _ yeah, that may be so,
but don't you know, we're never out of milk
or cottage cheese or [G#] yogurt.
[G] _ [E] _
_ _ _ He's making the best [F#] of a bad situation.
[B] Don't want to make [D] [E] waves, can't you see?
_ _ Making the best of [F#] a bad situation.
Reckon I'd do [D] the same [E] if it was me.
_ Well now I know a lady, she's a real fine lady,
[Bm] wouldn't harm a fly just trying to [E] get by
and keep her house in order. _ _
But you know her husband, _ _ works so hard
that he'd come unglued, he'd come [Cm] unwrapped,
[F#] just [E] _ [G#] snapped, [G] _ [E] _ thinks he's a chicken. _ _ _
_ Roosts in a bush by the side of the [A] house.
[Bm] _ [Cm]
[E] It's none of my business.
_ [G] _ [E] But one day, _ I took her aside and I asked her,
she had never thought about trying to find him
a doctor who could make him well.
_ And she said, well, _ _ _ _ yeah, _ _ now and [G#] then,
but then again, [C#m] _ [E] _ _
[A#] _ [E] _ _ [Em] he [E] don't eat much. _
_ Just chicken feed [E] and all that pecking in the yard
don't [G] hurt nothing.
[E] _ Heaven knows we can use the eggs.
_ _ _ She's making the best [F#] of a bad situation.
_ [E]
Don't want to [Bm] make waves, [E] can't you see? _ _
Making the best [F#] of a bad situation.
[B]
Reckon I'd do the [G] same if [E] it was me. _ _
Now I know [B] a man, he's an educated man,
he's an [Cm] alligator [F#] wrestler.
[E] _
_ He just jumps on in there and [C] grabs them long [G#] greenfellas.
[A] _ [E] Buy whatever you grab them long greenfellas, buy.
Now one day, _ _ he was wrestling this one alligator,
and this other alligator scampered up behind him
and bit both the ears [G] right off his [E] head. _ _ _
Didn't bat an eye, just crawled off in the [G#] shade
and went to sleep.
[F#] _ [Em] _
_ [G#] The [E] alligator, not the man.
It's none of my business.
But one day, _ I took him aside and I told him
I thought it was a terrible shame about that little accident
that he had getting his ears bit off, you know?
Because from now on, his hat's going to fall down over his eyes
and _ he won't ever be able to be a gypsy
because he's got no place to hang a gold earring. _
And I told him that, he looked me right in the eye and he said, _
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Huh?
_ _ He's making the best [F#] of a bad situation.
[B] Don't want to make [G] waves, [E] can't you see?
_ _ Making the best [F#] of a bad situation.
[N] Reckon I'd do the same if [E] it was me.
_ We're all making the best of [F#] a bad situation.
[F#m] We're all [Bm] in this together, [E] you and me.
_ _ _ _ _ We're all in this together.
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