The Way It Was may refer to:
The Way It Was (TV series), a 1974–1978 American sports series The Way It Was (album), by Parachute, 2011 "The Way It Was", a song by the Bee Gees from Children of the World, 1976 "The Way It Was" (The Killers song), 2012 "The Way It Was", a song by the Backstreet Boys from DNA, 2019
See also The Way It Was, The Way It Is, a 1969 album by Lou Rawls The Way It Is (disambiguation) The Way I Remember It (disambiguation)