Chords for Malcolm Holcombe "To Get By"

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This is a little ditty here for _ _ a_
There's this fella, I wish I could remember his name, but he couldn't speak English.
He's from Sicily.
But he taught me how to wash pots.
You know, when the spaghetti gets a little done on the bottom, you know,
and you got that black stuff that you need a chisel.
Or else you could use some_
some _ elbow grease and a spoon
_ to clean that pot.
And so this is called To Get By.
Something like that.
Or this, that, the other.
[C#] _ _ _ [D#m] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ Washing up them dirty [F#] old dishes
Mama's good china [C#] washed away in the flood
_ Every drop of my common sense
[F#] Never [C#] was good enough
To [F#] get by, [C#] to get by
To [D#m] get by, Lord, to [C#] get by
_ [G] _ [C#] Scribble down some grocery [F#] list
The kind [C#] on the fridge there
_ Rice is groceryin' down on Main Street
We got credit there
[D#m] To get by, [F#]
to [C#] get by
To [F#] get by, Lord, [C#] to get by
_ _ Too young to buy [F#] cigarettes
So I told an old friend [C#] of mine
_ He don't breathe too good these days
But he [G#] ain't giving up trying
To get by, [F#] to [C#] get by
To get [F#] by, Lord, [C#] to get by
Our youth runs by and by
Stuck in a [G#] revolving door
[D#] [A#] Some highfalutin' trick [G#] in my mind
Always cries out for more
[F#] To get by, to _ get by _
_ [D#] _ [C#] _ _ [G] _ _ _
Them bells and whistles they [D#] taught money
For the suits and ties and the [C#] cubicles _
Old time memories soon [D#] forgotten
So we just had to [C#] use them to make do
To get by, to get by
To get by, Lord, to get by
_ Egyptians mummified their dead
And the Roman Empire perished
[G#] [C#] All them afterlife possessions
[F#] Makes me [C#] old and foolish
To get by, to get by
[D#] To get by, [C#] Lord, to get by
[A#] Our youth runs [G#] by and by
Stuck in a revolving door
Some [F#] highfalutin' trick in my [G#] mind
Always cries out for more
[F#] To get by, to _ get by
_ _ _ [C#] Let me hear that thing
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That dollar burns a hole in my pocket
From the magazines that Americana drink
_ And that grass is always greener
[F#] On my neighbor's [C#] property
To [F#] get by, [C#] to get by
[D#m] To get by, [C#] Lord, to get by
_ [G#] [A#m] The power of youth runs [C#] by and by
[G#] Stuck in a revolving door
[A#m] Some highfalutin' trick in [G#] my mind
Always cries out for more
To get by, Lord, [F#] to get by
_ _ [C#] To get by, Lord, to get by
The [A#m] power of youth runs by and by
Stuck in a revolving [D#] door _
Some [F#] highfalutin' trick [G#] in my mind
Always cries out for more
[D#] To [F#] get by, [C#] Lord, to get by _ _ _ _ _
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