Jim Croce – I Am What I Am (Guitar)

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Perhaps, I'll never show this world all I could be

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I just can't sing to any man the song he wants to hear

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And I know that some won't like me

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Others try to be my friend

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But I'm all of me and that's all that I am

        E
And if life is for the living

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Then why can't men be real

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'Stead of hidin' in their costumes?

F                  E
Forgettin' how to feel

F            G     C
Forgettin' how to feel

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We still live in a time when manners cover what is real

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There's a basic fact of life that the times cannot conceal

        F           G
That if some are masqueraders

        C            Am
Others live in their facade

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But I'm what I am, I cannot be what I am not

        E
And if life is for the living

       F       G         C
Then why can't men be real

           F              C
'Stead of hidin' in their costumes?

F                  E
Forgettin' how to feel

F            G     C
Forgettin' how to feel

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I may be too honest and offend those who pretend

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I don't claim I'm always right, that I'm everybody's friend

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Perhaps for them it's easier to be what they are not

F
But I'm what I am

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And I just can't play that part

        E
And if life is for the living

       F       G         C
Then why can't men be real

           F              C
'Stead of hidin' in their costumes?

F                  E
Forgettin' how to feel

F            G     C
Forgettin' how to feel