It Doesn't Have To Be That Way chords by Jim Croce

Chords with lyrics

C majorC
 Snowy nights and Christmas lights,

G7G7
 Icy window panes,

D7D7
 Make me wish that we could be

G7G7
 Together again

     C majorC
 And the windy winter avenues

Dm7Dm7
 Just don't seem the same,

C majorC
 And the Christmas carols sound like blues,

     C majorC
 But the choir is not to blame

CHORUS:

 E minorEm
 But it doesn't have to be that way

C majorC
 What we had should never have ended

          E minorEm
 I'll be dropping by today

FF
 D7D7
 'Cause we could easily get it together tonight

G7G7
 It's only right

C majorC
 Crowded stores, the corner Santa Claus,

G7G7
 Tinseled afternoons,

     D7D7
 And the sidewalk bands that play their songs

           G7G7
 Slightly out of tune

     C majorC
 On the windy winter avenues

G7G7
 There walks a lonely man,

   C majorC
 And if I told you who he is,

     C majorC
 Well I think you'd understand


[CHORUS 2x]


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