Holiday - Doesnt Have To Be That Way guitar tab

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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 :)