That Was The Way It Was Then chords by
Mickey Newbury

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Key: Gb major

Verse 1

Asus4

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Interlude 1

Verse 2
the cowboys still sit
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with their backs to the wall?
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Do the drifters still answer
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the highwayman's call?
Do the old hobos still cook
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their beans in a tin?
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The sailors still cast
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their fates to the wind
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Are the villains in black hats?
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Are the heroes in white?
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Are there sock hopping,
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rock and rolling Saturday nights?
Would a forty -nine Burberry
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still be our sight
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That was the way it       was then
You were like Natalie,
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and I  was James Dean
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Slow -walkin', soft -talkin',
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silently mean
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Surely the rebel in me lives again
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But without a cause to be
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all caught up in
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It's quarter to ten and
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I'm lying in bed
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Spinnin' that old memory
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thing in my head
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The      times were so good,
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the songs were so sad
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It's a game we play, feelin' good,
feelin' bad
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There's a  girl I remember
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Now what was her name?
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We made     love all night
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In one hell of a rain
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Well, maybe ten minutes
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How time it would fly
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It  will never be that way
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