[Verse 1]
Hi buckaroos
Steve Earle again
Trying my best to be Jerry Jeff Walker once more
Don't ask me how I did it
Just did it like you knew it
I've been down this road once or twice before

[Chorus]
Just gettin' by on gettin' by is my stock-in-trade
Living it day-to-day
Just picking up the pieces wherever they fall
Just lettin' it roll
Lettin' the high times carry the low
Just living my life easy come, easy go

[Verse 2]
Just last week I was thinking
Ah, it's record time again
I can see Danny Goldberg passing the floor
Oh Danny, don't you worry
Something's bound to come out
We've been down this road once before

[Chorus]
Just gettin' by on gettin' by is my stock-in-trade
Living it day-to-day
Just picking up the pieces wherever they fall
Just lettin' it roll
Lettin' the high times carry the low
Just living my life easy come, easy go
[Verse 3]
Income tax is overdue
What else is new
Been busted and I only get busted no more
I'll catch it all later
Something bound to come out
I've been down this road once or twice before

[Chorus]
Yeah just gettin' by on gettin' by is my stock-in-trade
Living it day-to-day
Just picking up the pieces wherever they fall
Just lettin' it roll
Lettin' the high times carry the low
Just living my life easy come, easy go

[Chorus]
Just gettin' by on gettin' by is my stock-in-trade
Living it day-to-day
Just picking up the pieces wherever they fall
Just lettin' it roll
Lettin' the high times carry the low
Just living my life easy come, easy go
Yeah I'm just living my life easy come, easy go