Lyrics:

In “I Can Get By,” a man tells how he can get by without a lot of things in his life, but he doesn’t want to ever have to try to get by without his wife.
In a simple life dreams die hard
You never let 'em go
All the while you play your cards
And you may never know
Why it's always Lady Luck
On someone else's palm they read
You filling my two empty arms
Is really all I need

I can get by if it all fell through
Right down to the bottom of my list
I can get by looking back on life
Find that I've too many things I've missed
I can get by without doing
All the crazy things some people do
But I wouldn't wanna try even
Barely getting by without you

Many things I've come to need
That I could do without
And many more I've done without
That I could come to need
The one thing that I'd fight to keep
Until my days are through
Is when I lay me down to sleep
I'm lying next to you

I can get by if it all fell through
Right down to the bottom of my list
I can get by looking back on life
Find that I've too many things I've missed
I can get by without doing
All the crazy things some people do
But I wouldn't wanna try even
Barely getting by without you

I can get by if it all fell through
Right down to the bottom of my list
I can get by looking back on life
Find that I've too many things I've missed
I can get by without doing
All the crazy things some people do
But I wouldn't wanna try even
Barely getting by without you