Intro: D G A Asus A
G(add9)
Stack of bills on the kitchen table,
Out go the lights and off goes the cable.
D
If she don't pay em by the 15th,
A
Then it don't look like she's gonna be able.
G(add9)
Two mouths to feed, two jobs barely get it done,
A lot on the plate for a single mom of 31.
D A G
From the outside lookin' in, you'd think her world would crumble,
A
But she keeps finding that light at the end of the tunnel.
D F#m G
But somehow she keeps getting by,
D Bm
The only soft shoulder she knows is off some old broken road,
A G
She's goin' down...she's goin' down.
D F#m G
Sometimes she feels like throwin' in the towel,
A Bm G A Bm
But she's not, no matter what she's gonna give her kids a better life,
A G
Than what she's got...
A G(add9) A Asus A
And that's what keeps her getting by.
G(add9)
Friday at noon its parent/teacher day,
Its Johnson Elementary or half a shift's pay,
D
She wouldn't miss it for the world.
G(add9)
She looks around at all the daddies in the room,
Wishin' her kids had one of them too.
D A G
This ain't how she planned it, her life's goin' ten different ways,
A
Its off to little league, and then to ballet..
D F#m G
But somehow she keeps getting by,
D Bm
The only soft shoulder she knows is off some old broken road,
A G
She's goin' down...she's goin' down.
D F#m G
Sometimes she feels like throwin' in the towel,
A Bm G A Bm
But she's not, no matter what she's gonna give her kids a better life,
A G
Than what she's got...
A D
And that's what keeps her getting by.
C G D
In every dark cloud oh, she keeps findin' that
F G A
Silver lining.
D F#m G
INSTRUMENTAL
D F#m G
Sometimes she feels like throwin' in the towel,
A Bm G A Bm
But she's not, no matter what she's gonna give her kids a better life,
A G
Than what she's got...
A Bm A G
And that's what keeps her getting by.
A G(add9) A Asus A
Yeah, that's what keeps her getting by.
