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One Tough Life

from Vegas With Randolph by Vegas With Randolph

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ONE TOUGH LIFE
(Kern/Ratts)

Times were tough, I heard him say
How’d you think I got so gray?
It was one tough life for you.

Things were different in a younger day.
You’d break your back just to earn your pay.
It was one tough life for you.

Up in the morning at the break of dawn
Stand in line to find the soup’s all gone.
It was one tough life for you.

Had Valentino and Greta G.
We never had no MTV
It was one tough life for you.

We didn’t worry ‘bout no overtime
We just felt damn lucky we could make a dime
There was always someone ready to take your place in line
We didn’t struggle or put up a fight
Just thankful for a place to lay our heads at night
It wasn’t easy, but we did all right

We couldn’t trust the bank at all
We had to hide our alcohol.
It was one tough life for you.

No medicine to vaccinate.
No means to refrigerate.
It was one tough life for you.

We never thought about no fax machine
No CD player, no plasma screen
We didn’t have a car so we didn’t need no gasoline
We did what we could on integrity
And if that didn’t work, well then you went hungry
We just called it “life as usual” in the 1930’s

So when you think that you’ve got it bad.
Just try to live on what we had
It was one tough life for you.
It was one tough life for you.
It was one tough life for you.

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from Vegas With Randolph, released May 15, 2008
c) 2008 Wandering Songs / BMI

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Vegas With Randolph Washington, D.C.

Vegas With Randolph’s music has been called “ebullient, unabashed power pop”, “thinking man's party music,” and “blissful pop songwriting at its finest” and their music has been compared to Fastball, Sloan, and Fountains of Wayne.

VWR is currently working on tracks for a fifth CD - look for this release in late 2023! VWR includes John Ratts, Eric Kern, Brock Harris, and David Purol.
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