Tablature let me be - The Turtles

          



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                                "Let Me Be"

                                (P.F. Sloan)

  

  Intro:

  

  	D   A    D6  E		[2X; 12-string enters 2nd time]

  	/ / / /  / / / /

  

  Verse 1:

  

  	  D              E      D          E

  	Please don't mistake me or try to make me

  	      D        E       A

  	The shadow of anybody else

  	D            E      D              E

  	I ain't the him or her you think I am

  	          D      E            A

  	I'm just trying hard to be myself

  	          E                     A

  	Though society's goal is to be part of the whole

  	           D                       E

  	That may sound good to you, not to me

  

  Chorus:

  

  	       A

  	Let me be, let me be

  	    D            E

  	To think like I want to

  	       A

  	Let me be, let me be

  	        D        E

  	That's all I ask of you

  	  D                       C#m   Bm     [1,2: repeat intro  3: to coda]

  	I am what I am and that's all I ever can be

  

  Verse 2:

  

  	Don't try to plan me or understand me

  	I can't stand to be understood

  	I could never give in to or ever live up to

  	Being like you think I should

  	I've got some inner need that I'm tryin' to heed

  	I can't take hand-me-down destiny

  

  [repeat chorus]

  

  Verse 3:

  

  	Don't try to change me or rearrange me

  	To satisfy the selfishness in you

  	I'm not a piece of clay to mold to your moves each day

  	And I'm not a pawn to be told how to move

  	I'm sorry I ain't the fool you thought would play by your rules

  	A to-each-is-own philosophy

  

  [repeat chorus]

  

  Coda:

  

  	    A

  	(...be)

  

  	               D     E       A

  	I said that's all I ever can be   [repeat to fade]

  

  

  -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

   


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 Let me be, de The turtles 

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