The Turtles - Let Me Be

      
 
 Let Me Be:The Turtles.
 #29 in 1965.
 
 INTRO: D A D E(x2)
 
 #1.
 D            E           D         E       
 Please don't mistake me, or try to make me,
     D         E       A    D 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  E7 
 that may sound good to you, not to me.
 
 CHORUS:
        A                 D                 E  
 Let me be, let me be..to think like I want to.
        A                         D        E   
 Let me be, let me be..that's all I ask of you.
   D                       C#m    Bm       D  A D E 
 I am what I am and that's all, I ever can be.
 
 #2.
 D            E       D        E       
 Don't try to plan me or understand me,
   D              E       A    D A 
 I can't stand to be understood.
         D          E         D            E  
 I could never give in to, or ever live up to,
 D          E           A      
 being like you think I should.
          E                         A              
 I've got some inner need which I'm tryin' to heed,
         D                 E      E7 
 I can't take hand-me-down destiny.
 ( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/turtles/let_me_be_crd_ver_3.html )
 CHORUS:
        A                 D                 E  
 Let me be, let me be..to think like I want to.
        A                         D        E   
 Let me be, let me be..that's all I ask of you.
   D                       C#m    Bm       D  A D E 
 I am what I am and that's all, I ever can be.
 
 #3.
 D            E            D E          
 Don't try to change me or rearrange me,
    D           E              A  D A 
 to satisfy the selfishness of you.
     D              E                D                E    
 I'm not a piece of clay, to mold to your moves, each day..
         D             E              A    
 and I'm not a pawn to be told how to move.
           E                                  A   
 I'm sorry I'm not the fool you thought would play
                       D                    E   E7 
 by your rules...a 'to-each-his-own' philosophy.
 
 CHORUS:
        A                 D                 E  
 Let me be, let me be..to think like I want to.
        A                         D        E   
 Let me be, let me be..that's all I ask of you.
   D                       C#m    Bm       D  A D E 
 I am what I am and that's all, I ever can be.
 
 OUTRO:
                D     E        A  
 I said, that's all I ever can be.
                D     E        A  
 I said, that's all I ever can be.
                D     E        A         
 I said, that's all I ever can be.(Fade.)
 
 A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.