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How to Play The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby


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This short lesson lays out the basics of Bruce Hornsby's famous song "The Way it Is".  The set of chords for the verses of the song are:

|Ami  Emi7 | G  D | G  D | Csus2

The set of chords for the chorus (not shown on this video, see The Way it Is with Singing) are shown below:

G   F  | C    | -> repeat


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