It Is What It Is chords by The Highwaymen

************* IT IS WHAT IT IS *************

written by Stephen Burton and John Fleming

performed by Waylon Jennings
             Kris Kristofferson
	     Willie Nelson
	     Johnny Cash


Verse 1:
	  E
	I've been ....

	I've been ...

	I've been all kinds of ...
                    A
	I've ....

	Speakin' truly

	I've been so cool i ....


Verse 2:
                       E
	I've been ....
	Without a ...r

	I've been Dr. ...
                     A
	I've been .....

	I've ...

	And when my ...

	Hell,i'm a nice ...


Chorus:
          B                                    A     E
	I am what i am 'cause i ....
          B                                           A      E
	'Cause it is what it is but ....


Verse 3:
                   E
	I been ...

	I was a s...

	You had ...

	I tried to ...
                       A
	I've been m...

	I've ...

	I've been so weird it ...


Verse 4:
                   E
	I wanted...

	I wanted ...

	I want a ...

	Kind of like the ...
                    A
	I've been ...

	I've been lost ...

	And when i fall ...

	I fall all over ...


Chorus.


Verse 5:
          A
	And you can go on forever and ...
            B
	Or you can stand up on your ...
           A
	Go on and do until you ....
           B
	What it is that you was that ....


Verse 6:
                    E
	I was an ...

	I was an ...

	I was ...

	That was ...
                     A
	I hit the ...

	Singin' ...

	But it wound up sounding ...


Verse 7:
                  E
	I got ....

	Reflected ...

	Is the way that i've been ....
                         A
	I heard ...

	Up in the ...

	But i never ever thought ...


Chorus(x2).



Perret Charles-Amir : perret@diva.univ-mlv.fr