Turtles – Let Me Be chords

Let Me Be:The Turtles.
#29 in 1965.

INTRO: D A D E(x2)

#1.
D            E           D         EPlease don't mistake me, or try to make me,
    D         E       A    D Athe shadow of anybody else.
D           E      D               EI ain't the him or her you think I am,
         D      E            AI'm just trying hard to be myself.
        E                       AThough, society's goal is to be part of the whole,
         D                         E  E7that may sound good to you, not to me.

CHORUS:
       A                 D                 ELet me be, let me be..to think like I want to.
       A                         D        ELet me be, let me be..that's all I ask of you.
  D                       C#m    Bm       D  A D EI am what I am and that's all, I ever can be.

#2.
D            E       D        EDon't try to plan me or understand me,
  D              E       A    D AI can't stand to be understood.
        D          E         D            EI could never give in to, or ever live up to,
D          E           Abeing like you think I should.
         E                         AI've got some inner need which I'm tryin' to heed,
        D                 E      E7I can't take hand-me-down destiny.

CHORUS:
       A                 D                 ELet me be, let me be..to think like I want to.
       A                         D        ELet me be, let me be..that's all I ask of you.
  D                       C#m    Bm       D  A D EI am what I am and that's all, I ever can be.

#3.
D            E            D EDon't try to change me or rearrange me,
   D           E              A  D A   to satisfy the selfishness of you.
    D              E                D                EI'm not a piece of clay, to mold to your moves, each day..
        D             E              Aand I'm not a pawn to be told how to move.
          E                                  AI'm sorry I'm not the fool you thought would play 
                      D                    E   E7by your rules...a 'to-each-his-own' philosophy.

CHORUS:
       A                 D                 ELet me be, let me be..to think like I want to.
       A                         D        ELet me be, let me be..that's all I ask of you.
  D                       C#m    Bm       D  A D EI 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.)


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