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                             i want it that way - backstreet boys
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Tuning: Standard (Capo 2)


Intro picking.
            
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A|---2--------
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[Intro] 
(picking)

       
              

      
   Yeah

         
You are my fir

    
e
        
The one desire

    
          
Believe when I

    
 say
           
I want it that

  
 way

[Verse]
(Strumming, Hammer on A-string)

           
But we are  tw

             
o  worlds apar

   
t
            
Can't reach to

       
 your heart
            
When you say

      
            
That I want it

       
 that way


[Chorus]

             
Tell me why, a

              
in't nothin' b

         
ut a heartache
             
Tell me why, a

              
in't nothin' b

         
ut a mistake
             
Tell me why, I

              
 never wanna h

         
ear you say
           
I want it that

  
 way


[Verse]
(Picking)

        
Am I your fire

    
?
         
Your one desir

    
e   -   re
            
(Yes I know), 

        
it's  too   la

te
             
But I want it 

     
that way


[Chorus]

             
Tell me why, a

              
in't nothin' b

         
ut a heartache
             
Tell me why, a

              
in't nothin' b

         
ut a mistake
             
Tell me why, I

              
 never wanna h

         
ear you say
            
I want it that

  
 way


[Bridge]

            
Now I can see 

            
that we've fal

len apart
             
From the way t

              
hat it used to

    
 be, yeah
            
No matter the 

              
distance, I wa

    
nt you to know

 that
             
Deep down insi

      
de of me


[Verse]

            
You are my fir

   
e
            
The one desire

  
    
You are, you a

re
            
You are, you a

         
re
     
Don't wanna he

ar you say


[Chorus]

          
Ain't nothin' 

          
but a heartach

e   (Yeah)
          
Ain't nothin' 

          
but a mistake 

 (Don't wanna 

hear you say)
          
I never wanna 

         
hear you say  

 (Oh, yeah)
           
       I want 

        
it that way


[Chorus]

          
Tell me why, a

              
in't nothin' b

         
ut a heartache
          
Tell me why, a

              
in't nothin' b

         
ut a mistake
          
Tell me why, I

              
 never wanna h

         
ear you say
          
I want it that

  
 way

          
Tell me why, a

              
in't nothin' b

         
ut a heartache
          
Tell me why, a

              
in't nothin' b

         
ut a mistake
          
Tell me why, I

              
 never wanna h

         
ear you say
          
I want it that

  
 way

 
(Never wanna hear you say)
         
I want it that

    
 way
           
'Cause I want 

             
it that way


** Put a hammer on 2nd string of the Em's for a good solo acoustic sound **