The Way We Were chords
Barbara Streisand 1974 (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch) *
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories_(Barbra_Streisand_album)
[C] [Em] [F] [Am] [F]
Mem'ries, light the corners of my mind,
[Em] [E7] [Am] [F]
Misty water-colored mem'ries
[E7] [C] [Am] [Dm7] [G7]
of the way we were.
[C] [Em] [F] [Am] [F]
Scattered pictures, of the smiles we left behind,
[Em] [E7] [Am] [F] [E7] [C] [C7]
Smiles we gave to one another, for the way we were.
[F] [Em] [Dm7]
Can it be that it was all so simple then?
[Em] [Em7] [A7]
Or has time rewritten every line?
[Dm] [Dm7] [Em]
If we had the chance to do it all again,
[Cmaj7] [F] [G7]
Tell me, would we, could we?
[C] [Em] [F] [Am] [F]
Mem'ries, may be beautiful and yet
[Em] [E7] [Am] [F]
What's too painful to re-mem-ber,
[E7] [Am] [F]
We simply choose to forget.
[Em] [F] [Em] [F]
So it's the laugh ter, we will remember
[Em] [Am] [Dm7]
Whenever we re-mem-ber
[C] [F]
The way we were,
[Fm] [C] [F] [Cmaj7]
The way we were.
* Alternates:
Capo III
[C] = [A]
[Em] = [C#m]
[F] = [D]
[Am] = [F#m]
[E7] = [C#7]
[Dm7] = [Bm7]
[G7] = [E7]
[C7] = [A7]
[Em7] = [C#m7]
[A7] = [F#7]
[Cmaj7] = [Amaj7]
[Fm] = [Dm]
Open (These chords are not in the original key)
[C] = [D]
[Em] = [F#m]
[F] = [G]
[Am] = [Bm]
[E7] = [F#7]
[Dm7] = [Em7]
[G7] = [A7]
[C7] = [D7]
[Em7] = [F#m7]
[A7] = [B7]
[Cmaj7] = [Dmaj7]
[Fm] = [Gm]
[C] = [F]
[Em] = [Am]
[F] = [Bb]
[Am] = [Dm]
[E7] = [A7]
[Dm7] = [Gm7]
[G7] = [C7]
[C7] = [F7]
[Em7] = [Am7]
[A7] = [D7]
[Cmaj7] = [Fmaj7]
[Fm] = [Bbm]
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