It Doesn't Have To Be That Way
Jim Croce
1972
Written by Jim Croce
Tabbed by Ray Scheidler <stingray12002@yahoo.com>


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Snowy nights and Christmas lights

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Icy window panes

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Make me wish that we could be  together again

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And the windy winter avenues

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Just don't seem the same    and the

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Christmas carols sound like blues

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But the choir is not to blame    but it

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Doesn't have to be that way

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What we had should never have ended

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And I'll be dropping by today

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Cause we could easily get it together tonight

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  It's only right 


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Crowded stores the corner Santa Claus

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Tinseled afternoons    and the

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Sidewalk bands that play their songs

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Slightly out of tune

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On the windy winter avenues

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There walks a lonely man

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And if I told you who he is

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Well I think you'd understand    but it

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Doesn't have to be that way

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What we had should never have ended

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And I'll be dropping by today

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Cause we could easily get it together tonight

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 It's only right


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