That's How I Wanted It to Be chords by Bobby Bare

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Verse 1
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I thought I'd like to lead
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the bachelor life for a while
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Live alone and have some fun
So I told her to take the kids and go
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back to her mama
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(That's how I wanted it to be) and I
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felt satisfied it was done
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I  wake up every morning make my
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self a cup of Jay
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Down to the factory that's where
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I spend my day
Five o'clock the whistle blows and that
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leaves the evening free
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That's how I wanted it to be
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Verse 2
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Well it didn't take me  long to find
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out just how much I needed her
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So I wrote and told her to take the kids
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And come on back home cause I
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was ready to settle down now
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Well you see I just got her letter today
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And it seems  she's found someone else
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someone she can depend on
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(That's how I wanted it to be) and
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she ain't comin' home no more
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I  wake up every morning...
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That's how I wanted it to be