Chords for Al Jarreau - We Got By (live, 1976)

_ [Dm] _ I don't [Em] know what that _
[C] _ [Dm] _ _ [Em] means. _
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[Gm] _ _ [Ab] _ [C] Oh, [Dm] I hardly have a belly full.
[Am] Never move a new [Abm] bicycle.
[Dm] Hand me down six shoes.
They [Bb] brought the [Ab] yule tides in [F] July. _
[Dm] I rode a bus, a train, and sometimes strolling [Am] for [Em] miles
to a movie [Ebm] show, [Dm] singing the song,
shoo-be-doo, while birds [Bb] and [Cm] rich folks flew right [F] on by.
But [Ab] we got [Fm] by.
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[Am] We got by.
[G] [A] We got by.
Yes, [Ab] _ we [Bb] got [Gm] by. _
Lord [Fm] knows we [Dm] got by. _
Winter wishes way to June.
We [Am] brightened [Em] July [Am] with that hot, [Ebm] raw [F] food.
Tell your [Bb] mama you're with Suvage.
You [D] bring some [Cm] beans, honey, and [F] I'll find the whites.
[Dm] And them neon lights were bright to bruise.
And [Am] sneaking back home with this girl, [Ebm] an angel,
[Dm] we hurried [Gm] down to say, I do.
And I stared my [Eb] first man child [F] in the eye.
[Eb] Oh, but we got by. _ _ _
[F] _ We got by.
[D] [Ab] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[Bb] God _ _ knows [Ab] we [F] got by.
Sometimes I'd be singing, doo-doo [Dm]-doo, doo-doo-doo.
[Am] [C] Ooh, [Am] ooh, doo-doo-doo, doo [B]-doo [Dm]-doo.
_ [Bb] _ Uh [Gm]-huh, uh-huh, [Cm] uh-huh.
[Fm] _ _ [Gbm] [Gm] And [Abm] now baby's got his belly full of y'all.
And [Bbm] finally he is that new [C] bicycle.
[B] Work and pray and choo [Abm]-choo-choo.
And [Dbm] mama's got LA gleaming in [Gb] her eye.
Oh, [E] and we got by.
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We got by.
Yeah, _ [E] _
_ we got by.
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Lord knows we [Gb] got by.
Sleep [B] on, walking and talking and hooking and [A] hooting and cooing and cooing.
[Gb] Loving and tugging and hugging and loving and sucking [B] and hugging.
And laying and swaying and swaying.
Listen and preaching and [Gb] keeping.
Lying, crying, and dying and [Ab] crying, [Gbm] crying.
[E] Dee-lee-ee, doo-bee-lee, [Gb] doo-bee-lee-ee, [Ab] wee-ee, uh-dee-hee.
[E] Dee-lee-ee, da-da-da-da, dee-lee-ee.
[Db] Ba-da-da-da-da [Abm]-da, ba-da-da-da-da, dee-lee-ee, dee-lee-ee, dee [Dbm]-lee-ee.
[A] God now, yeah, [Gb] yeah.
Ooh, [Ab] _
_ _ _ [E] we got [Gb] by.
Bye, bye, bye, [Abm] _ [A] _ _ _
[Eb] _ [Db] bye, _ _ [Ebm] and bye, _ [A] _ _
[Eb] I'm _ [Bbm] _ talking' bout, [Ebm] getting' back, _ [A] _ _
[B] thank you momma, _ [Db] _ _
[Ebm] really want
to thank [Gb] you [A] papa. _ _
[Gbm] _ _ _ [Db] _ Oh, [Ebm] that's [Gb] exciting.
[A] The thing [E] that I [Bm] need.
[Em] And [Bb] if you deep down in my soul, keep me whole [A] and help me to get [E] back.
[B] _ [Gbm] Oh, [Gb] thank you, Risa.
Thank you.
[A] _ You [B] also help me to get back.
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Goodbye.
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