Chords for Caroline Jones – Tough Guys (Behind The Song)
Tempo:
97.25 bpm
Chords used:
F#
B
F#m
G#
C#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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I'm selfish if I please myself, I'm good if I please you.
I'm a rebel if I don't fit in the box, I'm a talent if I do.
[G#] I'm ignorant to your hypocrite, naive to your experience.
Well, oops, but I don't give a shit, because I ain't waiting on you to approve.
Sorry, I'm thinking about it.
[F#]
[F#m]
I'm selfish if I please myself, I'm good [F#] if I [C#m] please you.
I'm a rebel [C#] if I don't fit in the box, [F#] I'm a talent if I do.
[D] I'm ignorant to your [B] hypocrite, naive to [G#] your experience.
Well, oops, but I don't give a shit, [B] because I ain't waiting on you to approve.
Tough Guys is a really sassy, tongue-in-cheek [C#m] song that is about [F#] learning how to be independent
of other people's opinions and expectations of you.
And it's saying it in a really kind of comedic and badass way.
Doesn't make you [E] cry, doesn't make you cry, doesn't make [C#] you cry.
[F#] Doesn't make you cry, doesn't [D#] make you cry.
But honestly, like, that's what it is.
It's taunting.
Yeah.
It's [B] like, doesn't make you cry, like, sorry, that's you, you know?
[F#] So I'm just wondering if there should be, like, [B] does that come through?
Well, dudes never [F#] think of themselves as crying.
It's just
A girl would think that way.
Girls [N] think if they cry, they think I should cry.
Dudes don't ever think they're gonna cry.
Yeah, yeah, until they do, until they do.
Until they do, and then if you believe it's happening
[F#] Is that true?
Is that true?
Yeah.
Well, you're born to cry all the time.
Can I cry when my wife [F#] gets mad at me?
Well, yeah, I mean, if you're gonna cry, that's one time.
Yeah, exactly.
Doesn't make you cry, [G]
[F#] doesn't make you cry.
Guys wanna [B] squirrel the plane nice.
I wanted to write a [F#m] song that had blues [B] influence because I love [F#m] acoustic blues.
And I went into a phase in my early 20s when I was listening to [F#] a lot of
Son [F#] House and Skip James and Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters,
but especially the acoustic blues of the 30s and 40s.
And that inspired me to pick up slide guitar and experiment in open tunings.
And so I've been doing that for a few years.
And I've always loved singing blues because I have a lot of
blues and R&B vocalists that I really look up to.
[C#m] [G#]
This is the guitar that's on Tough Guys.
This is the lead sound on Tough Guys.
It's a 1980 Gibson Les Paul artist.
And it's actually doubled with a Dobro resonator.
This is a National Resophonic Reso-Rocket, and his name is Lightning.
Tough Guys was the first kind of blues inspired song that I wrote.
And I wrote it on this guitar.
So the lead sound you hear on the record is this guitar and the Les Paul artist.
Ooh, they make you cry.
Let the steel [F#] do it first.
Let the steel do it first, and then we come to the jump, jump, down, you know.
And then,
[F#] yeah.
[E] That's gonna be really [F#] cool.
All the love in my [B] heart, sideways as it came.
Oh, [G] oh, oh, courage is [G#] all I'm singing to you.
[B] I think that was okay.
Yeah, that was great.
Okay.
I wrote it acapella.
I wrote the lyrics and the melodies.
And a few weeks later, I went to my [F#] Dobro and wrote the main slide riff and the chords.
And so it's a really blues inspired song, even though we produced it in more of the
pop rock country vein.
We started with just that acoustic Dobro riff and arrangement.
And Near Z, our drummer, [G] came up with that stomp clap sample.
And then a few months later, we were working on finishing the song so we could mix it.
And that's when I think [F#] the song really took a turn.
We came up with that fiddle sample line and the banjo sample line that doubles it.
[B]
[F#m] [B] And that just gave the [F#m] song a pulse and a dynamic rhythmically that it hadn't had before.
And suddenly the song was kind of a stomper and really took a turn.
So we had fun producing that song.
What I love about it is that the production really matches the vibe and the attitude of the song.
[C] There's a down, dirty, raunchy, sweaty, bloody.
[B]
[F#] [B] [F#m]
[B]
[F#] [B]
[F#]
I'm a rebel if I don't fit in the box, I'm a talent if I do.
[G#] I'm ignorant to your hypocrite, naive to your experience.
Well, oops, but I don't give a shit, because I ain't waiting on you to approve.
Sorry, I'm thinking about it.
[F#]
[F#m]
I'm selfish if I please myself, I'm good [F#] if I [C#m] please you.
I'm a rebel [C#] if I don't fit in the box, [F#] I'm a talent if I do.
[D] I'm ignorant to your [B] hypocrite, naive to [G#] your experience.
Well, oops, but I don't give a shit, [B] because I ain't waiting on you to approve.
Tough Guys is a really sassy, tongue-in-cheek [C#m] song that is about [F#] learning how to be independent
of other people's opinions and expectations of you.
And it's saying it in a really kind of comedic and badass way.
Doesn't make you [E] cry, doesn't make you cry, doesn't make [C#] you cry.
[F#] Doesn't make you cry, doesn't [D#] make you cry.
But honestly, like, that's what it is.
It's taunting.
Yeah.
It's [B] like, doesn't make you cry, like, sorry, that's you, you know?
[F#] So I'm just wondering if there should be, like, [B] does that come through?
Well, dudes never [F#] think of themselves as crying.
It's just
A girl would think that way.
Girls [N] think if they cry, they think I should cry.
Dudes don't ever think they're gonna cry.
Yeah, yeah, until they do, until they do.
Until they do, and then if you believe it's happening
[F#] Is that true?
Is that true?
Yeah.
Well, you're born to cry all the time.
Can I cry when my wife [F#] gets mad at me?
Well, yeah, I mean, if you're gonna cry, that's one time.
Yeah, exactly.
Doesn't make you cry, [G]
[F#] doesn't make you cry.
Guys wanna [B] squirrel the plane nice.
I wanted to write a [F#m] song that had blues [B] influence because I love [F#m] acoustic blues.
And I went into a phase in my early 20s when I was listening to [F#] a lot of
Son [F#] House and Skip James and Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters,
but especially the acoustic blues of the 30s and 40s.
And that inspired me to pick up slide guitar and experiment in open tunings.
And so I've been doing that for a few years.
And I've always loved singing blues because I have a lot of
blues and R&B vocalists that I really look up to.
[C#m] [G#]
This is the guitar that's on Tough Guys.
This is the lead sound on Tough Guys.
It's a 1980 Gibson Les Paul artist.
And it's actually doubled with a Dobro resonator.
This is a National Resophonic Reso-Rocket, and his name is Lightning.
Tough Guys was the first kind of blues inspired song that I wrote.
And I wrote it on this guitar.
So the lead sound you hear on the record is this guitar and the Les Paul artist.
Ooh, they make you cry.
Let the steel [F#] do it first.
Let the steel do it first, and then we come to the jump, jump, down, you know.
And then,
[F#] yeah.
[E] That's gonna be really [F#] cool.
All the love in my [B] heart, sideways as it came.
Oh, [G] oh, oh, courage is [G#] all I'm singing to you.
[B] I think that was okay.
Yeah, that was great.
Okay.
I wrote it acapella.
I wrote the lyrics and the melodies.
And a few weeks later, I went to my [F#] Dobro and wrote the main slide riff and the chords.
And so it's a really blues inspired song, even though we produced it in more of the
pop rock country vein.
We started with just that acoustic Dobro riff and arrangement.
And Near Z, our drummer, [G] came up with that stomp clap sample.
And then a few months later, we were working on finishing the song so we could mix it.
And that's when I think [F#] the song really took a turn.
We came up with that fiddle sample line and the banjo sample line that doubles it.
[B]
[F#m] [B] And that just gave the [F#m] song a pulse and a dynamic rhythmically that it hadn't had before.
And suddenly the song was kind of a stomper and really took a turn.
So we had fun producing that song.
What I love about it is that the production really matches the vibe and the attitude of the song.
[C] There's a down, dirty, raunchy, sweaty, bloody.
[B]
[F#] [B] [F#m]
[B]
[F#] [B]
[F#]
Key:
F#
B
F#m
G#
C#m
F#
B
F#m
I'm selfish if I please myself, I'm good if I please you.
I'm a rebel if I don't fit in the box, I'm a talent if I do.
[G#] I'm ignorant to your hypocrite, naive to your experience.
Well, oops, but I don't give a shit, because I ain't waiting on you to approve.
Sorry, I'm thinking about it. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ I'm selfish if I please myself, I'm good [F#] if I [C#m] please you.
I'm a rebel [C#] if I don't fit in the box, [F#] I'm a talent if I do.
[D] I'm ignorant to your [B] hypocrite, naive to [G#] your experience.
Well, oops, but I don't give a shit, [B] because I ain't waiting on you to approve.
Tough Guys is a really sassy, tongue-in-cheek [C#m] song that is about [F#] learning how to be independent
of other people's opinions and expectations of you.
And it's saying it in a really kind of comedic and badass way.
Doesn't make you [E] cry, doesn't make you cry, doesn't make [C#] you cry.
[F#] Doesn't make you cry, doesn't [D#] make you cry.
But honestly, like, that's what it is.
It's taunting.
Yeah.
It's [B] like, doesn't make you cry, like, sorry, that's you, you know?
[F#] So I'm just wondering if there should be, like, [B] does that come through?
Well, dudes never [F#] think of themselves as crying.
It's just_
A girl would think that way.
Girls [N] think if they cry, they think I should cry.
Dudes don't ever think they're gonna cry.
Yeah, yeah, until they do, until they do.
Until they do, and then if you believe it's happening_
[F#] Is that true?
Is that true?
Yeah.
Well, you're born to cry all the time.
Can I cry when my wife [F#] gets mad at me?
Well, yeah, I mean, if you're gonna cry, that's one time.
Yeah, exactly.
Doesn't make you cry, [G] _ _
[F#] doesn't make you _ cry.
Guys wanna [B] squirrel the plane nice.
I wanted to write a [F#m] song that had blues [B] influence because I love [F#m] acoustic blues.
And I went into a phase in my early 20s when I was listening to [F#] a lot of
Son [F#] House and Skip James and Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters,
but especially the acoustic blues of the 30s and 40s.
And that inspired me to pick up slide guitar and experiment in open tunings.
And so I've been doing that for a few years.
And I've always loved singing blues because I have a lot of
blues and R&B vocalists that I really look up to.
[C#m] _ _ [G#] _ _
_ _ _ _ This is the guitar that's on Tough Guys.
This is the lead sound on Tough Guys.
It's a 1980 Gibson Les Paul artist.
And it's actually doubled with a Dobro resonator.
_ This is a National Resophonic Reso-Rocket, and his name is Lightning.
Tough Guys was the first kind of blues inspired song that I wrote.
And I wrote it on this guitar.
So the lead sound you hear on the record is this guitar and the Les Paul artist.
Ooh, they make _ you cry. _ _
_ _ _ Let the steel [F#] do it first.
Let the steel do it first, and then we come to the jump, jump, down, you know.
And then, _
[F#] _ yeah.
_ [E] That's gonna be really [F#] cool.
All the love in my _ [B] _ _ _ heart, sideways as it came.
Oh, [G] oh, oh, _ _ _ courage is [G#] all I'm singing to you.
_ _ [B] _ I think that was okay.
Yeah, that was great.
Okay.
I wrote it acapella.
I wrote the lyrics and the melodies.
And a few weeks later, I went to my [F#] Dobro and wrote the main slide riff and the chords.
And so it's a really blues inspired song, even though we produced it in more of the
pop rock country vein.
We started with just that acoustic Dobro riff and arrangement.
And Near Z, our drummer, [G] came up with that stomp clap sample. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And then a few months later, we were working on finishing the song so we could mix it.
And that's when I think [F#] the song really took a turn.
We came up with that fiddle sample line and the banjo sample line that doubles it.
_ [B] _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [B] And that just gave the [F#m] song a pulse and a dynamic rhythmically that it hadn't had before.
And suddenly the song was kind of a stomper and really took a turn.
So we had fun producing that song.
What I love about it is that the production really matches the vibe and the attitude of the song.
[C] There's a down, dirty, raunchy, sweaty, _ bloody. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I'm a rebel if I don't fit in the box, I'm a talent if I do.
[G#] I'm ignorant to your hypocrite, naive to your experience.
Well, oops, but I don't give a shit, because I ain't waiting on you to approve.
Sorry, I'm thinking about it. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ I'm selfish if I please myself, I'm good [F#] if I [C#m] please you.
I'm a rebel [C#] if I don't fit in the box, [F#] I'm a talent if I do.
[D] I'm ignorant to your [B] hypocrite, naive to [G#] your experience.
Well, oops, but I don't give a shit, [B] because I ain't waiting on you to approve.
Tough Guys is a really sassy, tongue-in-cheek [C#m] song that is about [F#] learning how to be independent
of other people's opinions and expectations of you.
And it's saying it in a really kind of comedic and badass way.
Doesn't make you [E] cry, doesn't make you cry, doesn't make [C#] you cry.
[F#] Doesn't make you cry, doesn't [D#] make you cry.
But honestly, like, that's what it is.
It's taunting.
Yeah.
It's [B] like, doesn't make you cry, like, sorry, that's you, you know?
[F#] So I'm just wondering if there should be, like, [B] does that come through?
Well, dudes never [F#] think of themselves as crying.
It's just_
A girl would think that way.
Girls [N] think if they cry, they think I should cry.
Dudes don't ever think they're gonna cry.
Yeah, yeah, until they do, until they do.
Until they do, and then if you believe it's happening_
[F#] Is that true?
Is that true?
Yeah.
Well, you're born to cry all the time.
Can I cry when my wife [F#] gets mad at me?
Well, yeah, I mean, if you're gonna cry, that's one time.
Yeah, exactly.
Doesn't make you cry, [G] _ _
[F#] doesn't make you _ cry.
Guys wanna [B] squirrel the plane nice.
I wanted to write a [F#m] song that had blues [B] influence because I love [F#m] acoustic blues.
And I went into a phase in my early 20s when I was listening to [F#] a lot of
Son [F#] House and Skip James and Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters,
but especially the acoustic blues of the 30s and 40s.
And that inspired me to pick up slide guitar and experiment in open tunings.
And so I've been doing that for a few years.
And I've always loved singing blues because I have a lot of
blues and R&B vocalists that I really look up to.
[C#m] _ _ [G#] _ _
_ _ _ _ This is the guitar that's on Tough Guys.
This is the lead sound on Tough Guys.
It's a 1980 Gibson Les Paul artist.
And it's actually doubled with a Dobro resonator.
_ This is a National Resophonic Reso-Rocket, and his name is Lightning.
Tough Guys was the first kind of blues inspired song that I wrote.
And I wrote it on this guitar.
So the lead sound you hear on the record is this guitar and the Les Paul artist.
Ooh, they make _ you cry. _ _
_ _ _ Let the steel [F#] do it first.
Let the steel do it first, and then we come to the jump, jump, down, you know.
And then, _
[F#] _ yeah.
_ [E] That's gonna be really [F#] cool.
All the love in my _ [B] _ _ _ heart, sideways as it came.
Oh, [G] oh, oh, _ _ _ courage is [G#] all I'm singing to you.
_ _ [B] _ I think that was okay.
Yeah, that was great.
Okay.
I wrote it acapella.
I wrote the lyrics and the melodies.
And a few weeks later, I went to my [F#] Dobro and wrote the main slide riff and the chords.
And so it's a really blues inspired song, even though we produced it in more of the
pop rock country vein.
We started with just that acoustic Dobro riff and arrangement.
And Near Z, our drummer, [G] came up with that stomp clap sample. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And then a few months later, we were working on finishing the song so we could mix it.
And that's when I think [F#] the song really took a turn.
We came up with that fiddle sample line and the banjo sample line that doubles it.
_ [B] _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [B] And that just gave the [F#m] song a pulse and a dynamic rhythmically that it hadn't had before.
And suddenly the song was kind of a stomper and really took a turn.
So we had fun producing that song.
What I love about it is that the production really matches the vibe and the attitude of the song.
[C] There's a down, dirty, raunchy, sweaty, _ bloody. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _