BE GLAD
(Kent Westberry / Justin Tubb)


Del Reeves - 1969
Ernest Tubb - 1969
Justin Tubb - 1972





Be glad you've got what you've got when you've got it
Or you're gonna find out what you've got is gone
Make sure you know what you know when you know it
Or before you know it you'll be all alone

Take care what you do when you do, if you do it
If you don't you won't have your baby long
Be glad you've got what you've got when you've got it
Or you're gonna find out what you've got is gone

Everybody envies you, you lucky so and so
You should thank your lucky stars above
Just what she sees in you I guess I'll never know
It's a wonder you still have her love

Be glad you've got what you've got when you've got it
Or you're gonna find out what you've got is gone
Make sure you know what you know when you know it
Or before you know it you'll be all alone

Take care what you do when you do, if you do it
If you don't you won't have your baby long
Be glad you've got what you've got when you've got it
Or you're gonna find out what you've got is gone

You'd better treat her better, you'd better start right now
She deserves the best that you can do
She does everything for you the best that she knows how
That's the least she can expect from you

Be glad you've got what you've got when you've got it
Or you're gonna find out what you've got is gone
Make sure you know what you know when you know it
Or before you know it you'll be all alone

Take care what you do when you do, if you do it
If you don't you won't have your baby long
Be glad you've got what you've got when you've got it
Or you're gonna find out what you've got is gone
Or you're gonna find that what you've got is gone






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - April 2012)