We Got By Lyrics - We Got By - Al Jarreau

I hardly had a bellyful 

Never knew a new bicycle 

Hand-me-down books and shoes 

They brought the yule tides in July 

I rode a bus, a train and sometimes 

Strolling for miles to a movie show 

Singing a song "Shoobedoo" 

While birds and rich folks flew right on by 

But we got by, we got by 

We got by, Lord knows we got by 

Winter wishes wait till June 

We brightened July with that hot dog fun 

Tell your mama you're with Sue 

You bring the beans and I will find the wine 

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Them neon lights were bright till 2: 00 

And sneaking back home with this girl named Jo 

I hurried down to say I do 

And stared my first man-child in the eye 

But we got by, we got by 

We got by, Lord knows we got by 

Sometimes I say 

And now baby's got his bellyful y'all 

And finally here's that new bicycle 

Working, praying, June to June 

And mama's got L.A. gleaming in her eye 

And we got by, we got by, yeah 

We got by, Lord knows we got by 

See we kept on walking and talking and hawking 

And ooing, and cooing, and wooing 

Loving, and tugging, and hugging 

And a rubbing and sugging, and fugging 

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Laying, praying, swaying, letting 

And fretting, and betting, begetting 

Lying, and flying, and trying 

And dying, and sighing 

We got by, yes, we got by 

We got by, yeah, let's now help me sing 

By and by, by and by 

By and by, by and by 

Oh, we gonna sweet, sweet by, and didn't we get there? 

By, by, by, by 

Thank you mama provided, thank you papa 

'Causing me to tremble