Always Barely Getting By chords by Clayton Smalley

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: E

🎸 Intro:

B A E


🎸 Verse 1:
E
My bank accounts no indication of the work I′m putting in
E
Most times I'm at the job site before 4 am
  A
I punch the clock
A
I do my time
A

Yeah sometimes I complain
    E
But bitching about this way of life won′t get the mortgage paid
      B
It's enough to make you want to lose your mind
               E
Seems like I'm always barely getting by


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


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


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


Guitar 🎸 Solo:
A   E   A   B


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


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


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