Highwaymen-- It Is What It Is Chords

_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I've been a nutter.
I've been unconscious.
I've been all kind of things that are hard to smell.
[G] I've been unruly.
[A] Speaking truly.
_ [E] I've been a [D] fool.
I couldn't [Em] hardly [D] even smell [Em] myself.
I've been a [D] monster _ [E]
without a spouse.
I've been [D] Dr.
[Em] Jekyll [D] and Mr.
[E] Hyde.
I've [G] been a goner.
I've [A] been a loner.
And when my [D] mixture was [Em] right,
hell, I'm a nice [E] bunch of guys.
[Bm] I am what I am because I [A] ain't what [Em] I used to be. _ _
_ _ _ [B] Cause [Bm] it is what it is, but it ain't what [Em] it used to be. _ _
_ _ _ I've been a maroon boy.
I was a shape.
You had a [D] girlfriend.
[E] I [D] tried to snake her.
[Em] _ [G] I've been mysterious. _
[Em] I've been delirious.
_ Somewhere they would have killed a normal man.
I want [D] money.
_ [Em] _
[D] _ _ [E] _ I want [D] money, but [Em] I kind [Dm] of like it.
[Em] I hope so.
[G] I've been lost, you see.
I've been lost in space.
[E] And when I fall in love, I fall all [Em] over the place.
[Bm] I am what I am because I [F#m] ain't what [Em] I used to be. _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] Cause it is what it [D] is, but it ain't what [Em] it used to be. _ _
_ _ _ [A] Well, you can go on forever.
Make a mistake or [D] stay.
Or you [Em] can stand up on your hind legs and change your fate.
[A] _ Long until you finally see [Bm] what it is that you are [D] that you don't want to be.
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[A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ I [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [E] _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
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[D] was an [E] in-law.
I was a [D] scapegoat.
[Em] That [D] was the [Em] last straw.
I [G] had to hide away, [A] singing my way.
[Em] But it wound up seeming like you'll never walk alone.
I got a story. _
[D] It's the _ [E] _ _ [D] way that I've been [E] seeing for most of my life.
I [G] heard the laughter up in the [Dm] rapture, [Em] but I never ever thought that the joke was on me.
[B] I am what I am [Bm] because I ain't [A] what I [Em] used to be. _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] Cause it is what it is, but it ain't [Em] what it used to be. _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] I am what I am because I ain't [G] what I used to [Em] be. _ _
_ _ Cause [Bm] it is what it is, but it ain't what it [Em] used to be. _ _ _
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