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It Doesnt Have To Be That Way Tab

by Jim Croce


                        
  Snowy nights and Christmas lights,

                   
  Icy window panes,

                         
  Make me wish that we could be

             
  Together again

                   
  And the windy winter avenues

                      
  Just don't seem the same,

                            
  And the Christmas carols sound like blues,

                          
  But the choir is not to blame


CHORUS:

                               
  But it doesn't have to be that way

                          
  What we had should never have ended

                         
  I'll be dropping by today

                           
    
 'Cause we could easily get it together tonight

                        
  It's only right

                        
  Crowded stores, the corner Santa Claus,

                      
  Tinseled afternoons,

                                         
  And the sidewalk bands that play their songs

                     
  Slightly out of tune

                  
  On the windy winter avenues

                            
  There walks a lonely man,

                    
  And if I told you who he is,

                           
  Well I think you'd understand


[CHORUS 2x]


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