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Get By (Remix) easy guitar chords by
Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli
Jay-z
Jay-z

N/A
Verse 1
Am
Bm

Yeah, Kweli
Am
Dm

Ye- ye- ye- ye- ye
Am
Dm

yeah get back
Am

Classic Brooklyn, let's go
Verse 2
Am

We sell crack to our own,

nigga I'm back in the zone

My passionate poems got the feds

tapping my phones

It's like Timothy McVeigh, they

say I'm acting alone

I got a whole team that'll

put a gat to your dome
Bm

To get by, just to get by,
Am
Dm

just to get by, just to get by
Am

Yo this remix is hot,

we're only dealing with the live hip hop

Yo get by, get back nigga (Roc)
Verse 3
Am

Just to get by
Bm
C

Nigga I sold coke, nigga I pushed lah
Bm
D

Carried a four five
Dm
Am

Claimed I was ready to die

Promised never to cry

Held it all inside

Reality was too much to take so I
Bm

Kept my mind fly
C

Slimmed for most of mine
Am
Dm

Soon as I closed my eyes
Am

Then I woke up behind

Nigga either I throw it up, these nines

Or blow up with rhymes

The best flow of mines is like
Bm

blow up on lines of coke up
C
Am

And your folks think Hov' just
Dm
Am

wrote stuff to rhyme

Nah, I'm a poster for what

happened seeing your moms

Doing five dollars worth

to work just to get a dime
Bm

So pardon my disposition
C
Am

Why should I listen to a system
Bm
D
Dm

that never listened to me?
Am

Picture me working McDonald's

(uh uh)

I'd rather pull a mac on you

Sorry Ms. Jackson but I'm packing
Verse 4
Am
B

This morning I woke up
Bm
C
Am

Feeling brand new and I,
Dm

I jumped up
Am

Feeling my highs and my lows

In my soul, and my goals
Bm

Just to stop smoking and stop drinking
Am
Dm

But I've been thinking I got my reasons
Am

Just to get by, just to get by

Just to get (by), just to

get

(everybody gets your hands in the sky,

it go)
Verse 5
Am
Bm
Am

bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah
Bm
Dm
Am

Bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah
Verse 6
Am

Just to get by, just to get by

Just to get by

(...hands in the sky, it go)
Verse 7
Am
Bm
C

bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah
Am

bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah
Verse 8

Just to get by,

just to get by

(Talib Kweli) Just to get by
Verse 9
Am

We keep it gangster,
Bm

stay 'for shizzle', 'for sheezy'
C

Desensitize to the violence on
Am
Bm
Dm

the TV during the war
Am
Dm
Am

Killing each other is easy,

there's war and liquor for fallen niggas

Believe me,

it's ghetto libations seen it all before
Bm

Just to get by, my people we get fly
Am

My people we get high,
C
Am
Dm

filling cigars with the lah
Am

Nigga come on,

even Jesus was stoned before receiving the throne

I said to rest in peace to Nina Simone

Back in the days we was used to doing the shit
Verse 10
Am

I can't call

it all in the streets

We was hustling fiends that asked for it

I guess I was used to

just standing on corners
Bm

Waiting for paper bags
Am

with bundles of crack
C

Hoping the week was good
Am

so I could get money back

To get by, just to get by, just to get by,
Dm

just to get by
Am

When I was stressed I possessed

a side of my strength

That made me angry and bleed

With the frustration having me

smoking Newports and weed

To get by, just to get by, just

to get by, just to get by

Those be the times when I try to rely
Bm

On my niggas and street motherfuckers
Am

And reach out to wife and then I

place a call on my mother

To get by, just to get by,

just to get by, just to get by

(Hey yo mom pick up the phone,

I g- I gotta to talk to you ma)

If you was five percent instead of
Bm

acting stupid and guessing

You had to go and study
Am

your lessons

And know your math in the building
Interlude 1

recession to get by
Am

Bm
C
Am
Bm
Am


Verse 11
Am
Bm

This morning I woke up
Am

Feeling brand new and I,
Bm
Am

I jumped up

Feeling my highs and my lows

In my soul, and my goals
Bm

Just to stop smoking and stop drinking
Am

But I been thinkin I got my reasons

Just to get (get), just to get (get)

Just to get (get), just to get (get

buh buh buh bye bye)
Verse 12
Am

bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah

bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah
Verse 13
Am

Some people try to be fly

They fake and they lie
Bm
Am

They snakes'll see the hate in their eyes

Look at the sky to survive

People try to get by

Fighting force, slice of the pie

Trying to eat and be high

How you know you really alive if you
Bm

don't reach for the sky?
Am

Your eyes keep on the prize
Bm
D
Am

What you seek and you'll find

Who's the realest niggas? that we

let people decide

Who keeping it live?

Brooklyn got the key to the ride,
Am

c'mon

Some people try to be fly
Am

They fake and they lie
Am

They snakes'll see the hate in their eyes

Look at the sky to survive

People try to get by

Fighting force, slice of the pie

Trying to eat and be high

How you know you really alive if

you don't reach for the sky?

Your eyes keep on the prize
Outro 1

What you seek and you'll find

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