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

INTRO: D A D E(x2)

#1.
D (xx0232@1)          E (022100@1)         D (xx0232@1)       EPlease (022100@1)don't mistake me, or try to make me,
    D (xx0232@1)       E (022100@1)     A (x02220@1)  DA
the shadow of anybody else.
D (xx0232@1)         E (022100@1)    D (xx0232@1)             EI (022100@1)ain't the him or her you think I am,
         D (xx0232@1)    E (022100@1)          AI'm (x02220@1)just trying hard to be myself.
        E (022100@1)                     AThough, (x02220@1)society's goal is to be part of the whole,
         D (xx0232@1)                       E (022100@1)E7that (020130@1)may sound good to you, not to me.

CHORUS:
       A (x02220@1)               D (xx0232@1)               ELet (022100@1)me be, let me be..to think like I want to.
       A (x02220@1)                       D (xx0232@1)      ELet (022100@1)me be, let me be..that's all I ask of you.
  D (xx0232@1)                     C#m (x13321@4)  Bm (x24432@1)     D (xx0232@1)AD EI (022100@1)am what I am and that's all, I ever can be.

#2.
D (xx0232@1)          E (022100@1)     D (xx0232@1)      EDon't (022100@1)try to plan me or understand me,
  D (xx0232@1)            E (022100@1)     A (x02220@1)  DA
I can't stand to be understood.
        D (xx0232@1)        E (022100@1)       D (xx0232@1)          EI (022100@1)could never give in to, or ever live up to,
D (xx0232@1)        E (022100@1)         Abeing (x02220@1)like you think I should.
         E (022100@1)                       AI've (x02220@1)got some inner need which I'm tryin' to heed,
        D (xx0232@1)               E (022100@1)    E7I (020130@1)can't take hand-me-down destiny.

CHORUS:
       A (x02220@1)               D (xx0232@1)               ELet (022100@1)me be, let me be..to think like I want to.
       A (x02220@1)                       D (xx0232@1)      ELet (022100@1)me be, let me be..that's all I ask of you.
  D (xx0232@1)                     C#m (x13321@4)  Bm (x24432@1)     D (xx0232@1)AD EI (022100@1)am what I am and that's all, I ever can be.

#3.
D (xx0232@1)          E (022100@1)          DE
Don't try to change me or rearrange me,
   D (xx0232@1)         E (022100@1)            A (x02220@1)DA   
to satisfy the selfishness of you.
    D (xx0232@1)            E (022100@1)              D (xx0232@1)              EI'm (022100@1)not a piece of clay, to mold to your moves, each day..
        D (xx0232@1)           E (022100@1)            Aand (x02220@1)I'm not a pawn to be told how to move.
          E (022100@1)                                AI'm (x02220@1)sorry I'm not the fool you thought would play 
                      D (xx0232@1)                  E (022100@1) E7by (020130@1)your rules...a 'to-each-his-own' philosophy.

CHORUS:
       A (x02220@1)               D (xx0232@1)               ELet (022100@1)me be, let me be..to think like I want to.
       A (x02220@1)                       D (xx0232@1)      ELet (022100@1)me be, let me be..that's all I ask of you.
  D (xx0232@1)                     C#m (x13321@4)  Bm (x24432@1)     D (xx0232@1)AD EI (022100@1)am what I am and that's all, I ever can be.

OUTRO:
               D (xx0232@1)   E (022100@1)      A (x02220@1)     
I said, that's all I ever can be.
               D (xx0232@1)   E (022100@1)      A (x02220@1)     
I said, that's all I ever can be.
               D (xx0232@1)   E (022100@1)      A (x02220@1)     
I said, that's all I ever can be.(Fade.)


A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.