That’s The Way

THAT’S THE WAY
By: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
Led Zeppelin
Key: G

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I don't know how I'm gon-na tell you 
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I can't play with you no more 
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I don't know how I'm gon-na 
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do what ma-ma told me 
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My friend the boy next door. 
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I can't be-lieve what peo-ple say-ing 
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You're gon-na let your hair hang down 
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I'm sat-is-fied to sit here 
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work-ing all day long 
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You're on the dark-er side of town. 
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And when I'm out I see you walk-ing 
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Why don't your eyes see me 
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Could it be you've found 
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An-oth-er game to play, 
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What did ma-ma say to me. 

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That's The Way, 
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Oh, That's The Way it ought to be, 
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Yeah, yeah, ma-ma say 
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That's The Way it ought to stay. 
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Yeah yeah  oh, oh oh oh oh   Ah

And yesterday I saw you standing by the river, 
And weren't those tears that filled your eyes, 
And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying, 
Had they got you hypnotized? 
And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers, 
But all that lives is born to die. 
And so I say to you that nothing really matters, 
And all you do is stand and cry. 
I don't know what to say about it, 
When all you ears have turned away, 
But now's the time to look 
and look again at what you see, 
Is that the way it ought to stay? 
That's the way 
That's the way it oughtta be 
Oh don't you know now 
Mama said.. that's the way 
it's gonna stay, yeah