The Turtles – Let Me Be (Guitar)

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
Oh, society's goal is to be part of the whole

         D                         E
That may sound good to you, not to me

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

D            E       D       E
Don't try to plan me or understand me

  D     E                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 trying to heed

        D                      E
I can't take hand me down destiny

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

D            E         D      E
Don't try to change me or rearrange me

   D    E                     A
To satisfy the selfishness of you

D         E                D                       E
I'm not a piece of clay to mold to your moods each day

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

              D                              E
I'm sorry I'm not the fool you thought would play by your rules

       D        E           A
But to each his own philosophy

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

              D     E        A
I said that's all I ever can be  3x