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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