That's What Keeps Her Getting By Lyrics - Tracy Byrd

Stack of bills on her kitchen table 

Out go the lights and off goes the cable 

If she don't pay em by the 15th 

And it don't look like she's gonna be able 

Two mouths to feed, two jobs barely get it done 

A lot on her plate for a single mom at 21 

From the outside looking in you'd think her world would crumble 

But she keeps finding that light at the end of the tunnel 

Somehow she keeps getting by 

The only soft shoulder she knows 

Is on some lonely road 

She's going down, she's going down 

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but she's not 

No matter what she's gonna give her kids a better life 

Than what she's got 

And that's what keeps her getting by 

Friday noon, parent teacher day 

It's Johnson elementary or half a shift's pay 

But she wouldn't miss it for the world 

She looks around at all the Daddy's in the room 

Wishing her kids had one of them too 

This ain't how she planned it; her life's going ten different ways, 

It's off to little league and then to ballet 

Somehow she keeps getting by 

The only soft shoulder she knows 

Is on some lonely road 

She's going down, she's going down 

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but she's not 

No matter what she's gonna give her kids a better life 

Than what she's got 

And that's what keeps her getting by 

In every dark cloud 

She keeps finding that silver lining 

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but she's not 

No matter what, she's gonna give her kids a better life 

Than what she's got 

And that's what keeps her getting by 

Stack of bills on her kitchen table 

Out go the lights and off goes the cable 

If she don't pay em by the 15th 

And it don't look like she's gonna be able 

Two mouths to feed, two jobs barely get it done 

A lot on her plate for a single mom at 21 

From the outside looking in you'd think her world would crumble 

But she keeps finding that light at the end of the tunnel 

Somehow she keeps getting by 

The only soft shoulder she knows 

Is on some lonely road 

She's going down, she's going down 

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but she's not 

No matter what she's gonna give her kids a better life 

Than what she's got 

And that's what keeps her getting by 

Friday noon, parent teacher day 

It's Johnson elementary or half a shift's pay 

But she wouldn't miss it for the world 

She looks around at all the Daddy's in the room 

Wishing her kids had one of them too 

This ain't how she planned it; her life's going ten different ways, 

It's off to little league and then to ballet 

Somehow she keeps getting by 

The only soft shoulder she knows 

Is on some lonely road 

She's going down, she's going down 

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but she's not 

No matter what she's gonna give her kids a better life 

Than what she's got 

And that's what keeps her getting by 

In every dark cloud 

She keeps finding that silver lining 

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but she's not 

No matter what, she's gonna give her kids a better life 

Than what she's got 

And that's what keeps her getting by