We Got By

[00:06.47] I hardly had a bellyful
[00:11.57] Never knew a new bicycle
[00:16.77] Hand-me-down books and shoes
[00:20.77] They brought the yule tides in July
[00:26.13] I rode a bus, a train and sometimes
[00:30.50] Strolling for miles to a movie show
[00:35.94] Singing a song "Shoobedoo"
[00:39.91] While birds and rich folks flew right on by
[00:44.72] But we got by, we got by
[00:55.13] We got by, Lord knows we got by
[01:05.24] Winter wishes wait till June
[01:09.14] We brightened July with that hot dog fun
[01:15.21] Tell your mama you're with Sue
[01:19.27] You bring the beans and I will find the wine
[01:24.28] Them neon lights were bright till 2: 00
[01:29.07] And sneaking back home with this girl named Jo
[01:34.49] I hurried down to say I do
[01:39.08] And stared my first man-child in the eye
[01:43.86] But we got by, we got by
[01:54.78] We got by, Lord knows we got by
[02:02.84] Sometimes I say
[02:22.03] And now baby's got his bellyful y'all
[02:27.43] And finally here's that new bicycle
[02:33.38] Working, praying, June to June
[02:37.47] And mama's got L.A. gleaming in her eye
[02:41.84] And we got by, we got by, yeah
[02:54.67] We got by, Lord knows we got by
[03:00.66] See we kept on walking and talking and hawking
[03:04.85] And ooing, and cooing, and wooing
[03:06.91] Loving, and tugging, and hugging
[03:09.27] And a rubbing and sugging, and fugging
[03:11.71] Laying, praying, swaying, letting
[03:15.08] And fretting, and betting, begetting
[03:17.63] Lying, and flying, and trying
[03:20.38] And dying, and sighing
[03:43.22] We got by, yes, we got by
[03:49.75] We got by, yeah, let's now help me sing
[03:59.73] By and by, by and by
[04:09.11] By and by, by and by
[04:19.46] Oh, we gonna sweet, sweet by, and didn't we get there?
[04:29.66] By, by, by, by
[04:39.65] Thank you mama provided, thank you papa
[04:50.92] 'Causing me to tremble
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