Always Barely Getting By chords by Clayton Smalley

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: E MajorE

🎸 Intro:

BB A augmentedA E MajorE


🎸 Verse 1:
E MajorE
My bank accounts no indication of the work I′m putting in
E MajorE
Most times I'm at the job site before 4 am
 A augmentedA
I punch the clock
A augmentedA
I do my time
A augmentedA
Yeah sometimes I complain
  E MajorE
But bitching about this way of life won′t get the mortgage paid
   BB
It's enough to make you want to lose your mind
        E MajorE
Seems like I'm always barely getting by

🎸 Chorus:
 A augmentedA           E MajorE
I work my fingers to the bone
A augmentedA               BB
Just to pay the interest on a loan
 A augmentedA
I can′t get ahead
E MajorE        A augmentedA
No matter how I try
        BB   A augmentedA       E MajorE
Seems like I′m always barely getting by


🎸 Verse 2:
E MajorE
Looking at my paystub wondering where the money went
E MajorE
What ain't already spoken for goes to the government
A augmentedA
What′s the point
A augmentedA
In Medicare and
A augmentedA
Social Security
   E MajorE
If I work myself into the ground it's no benefit to me
   BB
Right now I can′t even afford to die
        E MajorE
Seems like I'm always barely getting by

🎸 Chorus:
 A augmentedA           E MajorE
I work my fingers to the bone
A augmentedA               BB
Just to pay the interest on a loan
 A augmentedA
I can′t get ahead
E MajorE        A augmentedA
No matter how I try
        BB   A augmentedA       E MajorE
Seems like I′m always barely getting by


Guitar 🎸 Solo:
A augmentedA  E MajorE  A augmentedA  BB


🎸 Verse 3:
  E MajorE
My little fixer upper ain't no mansion on a hill
E MajorE
I′ll never be a rich man worth enough to write a will
A augmentedA
Everywhere I look
A augmentedA
There′s people
A augmentedA
Live in just like me
  E MajorE
The backbone of this country in the land of the free
  BB
It makes me scratch my head and wonder why
         E MajorE
Seems like we're always barely getting by


🎸 Chorus:
 A augmentedA           E MajorE
I work my fingers to the bone
A augmentedA               BB
Just to pay the interest on a loan
 A augmentedA
I can′t get ahead
E MajorE        A augmentedA
No matter how I try
        BB   A augmentedA       E MajorE
Seems like I′m always barely getting by


🎸 Outro:
   A augmentedA
No I can′t get ahead
  E MajorE      A augmentedA
No matter how I try
        BB   A augmentedA       E MajorE
Seems like I'm always barely getting by
E MajorE
Barely getting by