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I'll Get By

Words and Music by Roy Turk and Fred E. Albert - 1928

Number 2 on the Hit Parade in 1944,  played for 22 weeks.

Verse:
G7	Dm        G7	C	A7
Dm7       Ddim	Dm        G7+	C	-
G7	Dm        G7	C	A7
Dm7       Ddim	G7	C          F7	C
Em	F#dim	Em        B7	Dm        Am
B7	-	E7         A7	D7         G7
Chorus:
C	-            G7	C          Bm7	E7          E7+
F6	-            A7	Dm       Am7	D9          Bm
Dm7       G7	-           Ebdim	G7	-             G+
C           C#dim	G7	C	-             G7
C           Bm7	E7          E7+	F6	-             A7
Dm         E7	-           G#dim	Am        Em7	A9          A7+
Dm         Dm7	-            G7	C	-  (to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

This old world was just as sad a place for me, As could be.
I was lonely and blue.
This old world then chang'd to paradise for me, Suddenly.
Why? Because I met you.

Although wealth and power I may never find,

Still as long as I have you, dear, I won't mind.  For:

 

Chorus:

I'll Get By as long as I have you,

Tho' there be rain and darkness too.

I'll not complain,

I'll see it through.

Poverty may come to me, that's true.

But what care, I say I'll Get By,

As long as I have you.

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Performer Links:

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Listen to Nick Lucas perform "I'll Get By" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com