Chord/Tab song: That's What Keeps Her Getting By

Tracy Byrd - That's What Keeps Her Getting By


Play this with a capo on 1st fret.
All chord names and shapes are relative to position of capo.
Real chord names are in square brackets below.

D (Eb) xx0232 G (Ab) 320003

A (Bb) x02220 Asus (Bbsus) x02230

G(add9) (Ab(add9)) 32023x F#m (Gm) 244222

Bm (Cm) x24432 C (Db) x32010

F (F#) 133211



[D]INT[G]RO[A][Asus][A]

[G(add9)]Stack of bills on the kitchen table,

Out go the lights and off goes the cable.
[D] If she don't pay em by the 15th,
Then [A]it don't look like she's gonna be able.
[G(add9)] Two mouths to feed, two jobs barely get it done,

A lot on the plate for a single mom of 31.
[D] [A] [G]
But she keeps finding that light at the [A]end of the tunnel.

But [D]somehow [F#m]she keeps [G]getting by,
The only soft [D]shoulder she knows is off [Bm]some old broken road,
She's [A]goin' down...she's [G]goin' down.
[D]Sometimes [F#m]she feels like [G]throwin' in the towel,
But [A]she's [Bm]not, no matter [G]what she's gonna [A]give her kids a [Bm]better life,
Than what [A]she's [G]got...
And that's what [A]keeps her getting by[G(add9)].[A][Asus][A]

[G(add9)] Friday at noon its parent/teacher day,

Its Johnson Elementary or half a shift's pay,
[D]She wouldn't miss it for the world.
[G(add9)]She looks around at all the daddies in the room,

Wishin' her kids had one of them too.
This [D]ain't how she planned it, her [A]life's goin' ten different [G]ways,
Its off to little league, and [A]then to ballet..


But [D]somehow [F#m]she keeps [G]getting by,
The only soft [D]shoulder she knows is off [Bm]some old broken road,
She's [A]goin' down...she's [G]goin' down.
[D]Sometimes [F#m]she feels like [G]throwin' in the towel,
But [A]she's [Bm]not, no matter [G]what she's gonna [A]give her kids a [Bm]better life,
Than what [A]she's [G]got...
And that's what [A]keeps her getting by.[D]

[C] In every dark [G]cloud oh, [D]she keeps findin' that
[F] Silver [G]lining[A].

[D]INS[F#m]TRUME[G]NTAL

[D]Sometimes [F#m]she feels like [G]throwin' in the towel,
But [A]she's [Bm]not, no matter [G]what she's gonna [A]give her kids a [Bm]better life,
Than what [A]she's [G]got...
And that's what [A]keeps her getting by.[Bm][A][G]
Yeah, that's what [A]keeps her getting by[G(add9)].[A][Asus][A]