Title: I Can Only Be Me
Artist: Eva Cassidy
Album: Imagine
Tabbed by: Stuart Lowe
Chords, in order of appearance:
G9 x x 5 4 3 5
G x x 5 4 3 3
Am7b5 x 0 5 0 4 3
Am7b5* x 0 5 2 4 3
Eb7 x x 1 3 2 3
C#7 x 4 3 4 2 x
C7 x 3 2 3 1 x
Fm 1 3 3 1 1 1
G#7 4 6 4 5 4 4
Bbm7 x 1 3 1 2 1
C9 x 3 2 3 3 x
F 1 3 3 2 1 1
F7 1 3 1 2 1 1
Eb x 6 5 3 4 3
D9 x 5 4 5 5 x
Gm7 x x 3 3 3 3
Gm6 x x 2 3 3 3
Fm9 1 3 1 1 1 3
Fm7 1 3 1 1 1 1
Cm7/G 3 3 5 3 4 3
D7 x 5 7 5 7 5
G* 3 5 5 4 3 3
Em7 0 2 0 0 0 0
Am7 x 0 2 0 1 0
D9/A x 0 0 2 1 0
Gmaj9 x x 4 4 3 5
Esus4 x x 0 4 5 5
E x x 6 4 5 4
Am7* x 0 2 0 1 3
Gm 3 5 5 3 3 3
Bb7 6 8 6 7 6 6
Cm7 8 10 10 8 8 8
* denotes a second version of a chord.
Intro, repeat twice:
|-5-----5p4-----|-3------3------|-5-----5p3-----|-3-------------|
|-3-----3---3---|-3------3------|-4-----4---4---|-4-----4-------|
|-4-----4-----5-|-4------4------|-0-----0-----5-|-0-----5-------|
|-5-----5-------|-5------5------|-5-----5-------|-5-------------|
|---------------|---------------|-0-----0-------|-0-------------|
|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
Verse 1:
[G9] [G] Am7b5 Am7b5*
Butterflies begin from having been a larva
[G9] [G] Am7b5 Am7b5* [Eb7]
As a child is born from being in a mother's womb
[C#7] [C7] [Fm] [G#7] [Bbm7]
But how many times have you wished you were some other
[C9] [F] [F7]
Someone than who you are
Chorus 1:
[Eb] [D9] [Gm7] [Gm6] [Fm9] [Fm7] [Cm7]/[G]
Yet who's to say that if all were uncovered,
[D7] [G]* [Em7] [Am7]
You will like what you see.
[D9]/[A] [Gmaj9] [Esus4] [E] [Am7]*
You can only be you,
[D9]/[A] [G9] (then play intro once)
as I can only be me.
Verse 2:
[G9] [G] Am7b5 Am7b5*
Flowers cannot bloom until it is their season
[G9] [G] Am7b5 Am7b5* [Eb7]
As we would not be here unless it was our destiny
[C#7] [C7] [Fm] [G#7] [Bbm7]
But how many times have you wished to be in spaces
[C9] [F] [F7]
Time, places than what you were
Chorus 2:
[Eb] [D9] [Gm] [Bb7]
Yet who's to say with unfamiliar faces
[Cm7] [D7] [G]* [Em7] [Am7]
You could any more be
[D9]/[A] [Gmaj9] [Esus4] [E] [Am7]*
Loving you that you'd see
[D9]/[A] [Gmaj9] [Esus4] [E] [Am7]*
You can only be you,
[D9]/[A] [G9] (then play intro twice)
as I can only be me. Oooh . . .
[G]*
I can only be me
