Gettin' By Chords

KeyA Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays565

Gettin' By by Jerry Jeff Walker is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords G, Am7, C, D and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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       G      Am7                      C            D                G 
Hi Buckaroos  Scamp walker time again  I'm trin' to slide one by you once more 
G                           Am7                          D 
Don't matter how you do it  just do it like you know it  I've been down that road 
                G               C                D                        G 
once or twice before    CHORUS  Just gettin by on gettin by's my stock in trade   
C                 G    C                 D                 G           C          D 
Livin' it day to day  pickin up the peices where ever they fall  just lettin' it roll 
                Em                C   G              D                      G 
lettin' the high times carry the low   I'm livin' my life easy come easy go 
 
2 
Last week I was thinkin'   its record time again   And I could see mike makin' those faces 
Ah Mike don't you worry   something's bound to come out   Besides I've been down this road  
once before     
 
REPEAT CHORUS 
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4 
Income tax is overdue  and I think she is too   Been busted  and I'll probally get  
busted some more   But I'll catch it all later   Can't let 'em stop me now 
I've been down this road once or twice before 
 
REPEAT CHORUS 
 
From the album Viva Terlingua 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante