That's How It Goes Chords

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That's How It Goes by The Breakaways is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, B, G#m, C#m and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			   E        A           B     A         E      A      B  A    
We met last year in the summertime, and that’s how it goes 
  E       A           B       A         B 
A boy and girl with a love so fine, and that’s how it goes 
G#m      A        E     G#m           A     E 
Baby how could we tell, that we’d get on so well 
  A                                   E 
I saw you once and I simply fell, and that’s how it goes 
    E      A             B      A         E      A      B  A    
The autumn came with the summer gone, and that’s how it goes 
   E        A        B           A       B  
My love for you just went on and on, and that’s how it goes 
G#m    A       E    G#m      A         E 
Baby I do love you, baby you know it’s true 
    A                                    E 
And I know you will be grateful too, and that’s how it goes 

C#m          G#m          C#m             B     C 
And then the winter came, how can you rearrange it 
C#m         G#m           C#m              A      B 
Our love is just the same, no one can ever change it 
E         A           B        A         E      A      B  A 
Spring is knockin’ on winter’s door, and that’s how it goes 
    E       A                B     A         B    
Our love is stronger than it was before, and that’s how it goes 
G#m    A        E   G#m        A    E 
Baby I love you so, baby don’t ever go 
  A                                        E 
I need you more than you’ll ever know, and that’s how it goes 
G#m    A        E   G#m        A    E 
Baby I love you so, baby don’t ever go 
  A                                        E 
I need you more than you’ll ever know, and that’s how it goes 
    	

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100 BPM Andante