[Intro]
C   C   F   F
C   C   G   G
C   C   F   F
C   G   C   C
[Strophe]
C 
I know a guy that's got a lot to lose. 
       F 
He's a pretty nice fellow but he's kind of confused. 
         C 
He's got muscles in his head that ain't never been used. 
                           G 
Thinks he own half of this town.  
C 
Starts drinking heavy, gets a big red nose. 
F 
Beats his old lady with a rubber hose, 
        C 
then he takes her out to dinner and buys her new clothes. 
                        G          C 
That's the way that the world goes 'round.
[Refrain]
C 
That's the way that the world goes 'round. 
       F 
You're up one day and the next you're down. 
     C 
It's half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown. 
                        G          C 
That's the way that the world goes 'round.
[Strophe]
C 
I was sitting in the bathtub counting my toes, 
         F 
when the radiator broke, water all froze. 
      C 
I got stuck in the ice without my clothes, 
                       G 
naked as the eyes of a clown.  
C 
I was crying ice cubes hoping I'd croak, 
         F 
when the sun come through the window, the ice all broke. 
  C 
I stood up and laughed thought it was a joke 
                        G          C 
That's the way that the world goes 'round.
[Refrain]
C 
That's the way that the world goes 'round. 
       F 
You're up one day and the next you're down. 
     C 
It's half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown. 
                        G          C 
That's the way that the world goes 'round.
[Refrain]
C 
That's the way that the world goes 'round. 
       F 
You're up one day and the next you're down. 
     C 
It's half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown. 
                        G          C 
That's the way that the world goes 'round.
[Refrain]
C 
That's the way that the world goes 'round. 
       F 
You're up one day and the next you're down. 
     C 
It's half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown. 
                        G          C 
That's the way that the world goes 'round.
[Outro]
                        G          C 
That's the way that the world goes 'round 
                        G                  C        C 
That's the way that the world........ goes 'round