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