Holiday - Doesnt Have To Be That Way guitar chord

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Date: 11/29/96; 5:54:51 PM

From: Bo

Subject: Re: Dutch Newton user group

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)

C     Em/B        Am        C/G   F  Em       C

Snowy nights and christmas lights, icy window pane,

C       Em/B      Am      C/G D7        G

make me wish that we could be together again.

        C     Em/B   Am  C/G  F     Em             C

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

        C         Em/B   Am         C/G

and the Christmas carols sound like blues,

        F        G7     C

but the choir is not to blame.

Chorus:

       C Em/B  Am  C/G F       Em

But it doesn't have to be that way,

F       Em         F          C

what we had should never have ended.

C   Em/B Am  C/G F    Em

I'll be dropping by today;

F        Em     F        C       D7      G            C      G  F  C  G

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.

Chorus

Chorus

(*)  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 :)