Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Ah baby

 After many tears fall from your eyes

 A thousand times you ask yourself why

 The one guy you love has departed

 You're left alone and broken-hearted

Love just comes and goes

 How long it's gonna last nobody knows

Chorus

That's the way love is, baby

That's the way love is, sugar, how it is

That's the way love is, baby

That's the way love is, sugar, how it is

That's how it is

I know you're walkin' down a lonesome road

 And your heart is carryin' a heavy load

 I know you feel like you ain't got a friend (ain't got a friend)

 And your whole world's cavin' in (cavin' in)

 Ah, but now is the time to be strong (to be strong)

 You better forget him now that he's gone (now that he's gone)

Remember...

(chorus)

(instrumental)

Listen to me, little darlin'

 The road of love is rough sometimes

 But don't let it get the best of you

 I've been hurt by love so many times

 I know just what you're goin' through

 You wish you were never born

 You better forget him now that he's gone

(chorus)

Wipe away your tears

 Love is here today and gone tomorrow

(That's the way love is, sugar, how it is)

All your joys turn to sorrow

(That's the way love is, sugar, how it is)

One day gladness, and the next day sadness

(That's the way love is, sugar, how it is)

...and fade