Doesnt Have To Be That Way

Hello there Cowpie friends. I'm not sure if there's a X-mas Issue

coming out but if there is, you might like a bit of borderline-country

with a certain X-mas feel to it. At least that's how I'd describe this

excellent song.

Either my guitar is off tune or Jim played this in C#. I'm doing it in

C for easy reference, but if you wish to play it in C# put a capo on

fret 1. Playing it exactly as Croce does would be quite a challenge,

but I'm using a simple picking pattern on the open chords.

So, y'all have a nice Christmas, and if you have some making up to do

to your love, this one will absolutely do the trick - and possibly more

than that - none of which I shall be held responsible for :)

It Doesn't Have To Be That Way - Jim Croce

tabbed by Bo (bo@ebony.iaehv.nl)

(CAPO on 1)

Snowy nights and christmas lights, icy window pane,

make me wish that we could be together again.

And the windy winter aven-ues, just don't seem the same,

and the Christmas carols sound like blues,

but the choir is not to blame.

But it doesn't have to be that way,

what we had should never have ended.

I'll be dropping by today;

we could easily get it together tonight.... it's only right.

Crowded stores that ...(*) Santa Claus, tinseled afternoons,

and the side walk bands play their songs, slightly out of tune.

On the windy winter avenues, there walks a lonely man

and if I told you who he is

well I think you'd understand.

(*) I've listened to this piece over and over again, but I can't figure

out what he's singin here. But then again I'm foreign :)