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You Don't Have To Say You Love Me – Elvis Presley
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Written by: Wickham/Simon Napier-Bell/Pino Donaggio/Vito Pallavicini
From: "That’s the Way it Is" (1970)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
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capo: 1st fret
play: E
key: F
time signature: 6/8
tempo: ca. 230
For original chords, transpose this tab +1.
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I always find it hard to hit the right notes at the beginning of the song.
Here's a reminder.
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 +
e|-----------------------|------------------------|
B|-----------------------|------------------------|
G|-----------------------|--------------------4---|
D|------------2---4---5--|------------------------|
A|-----------------------|------------------------|
E|-----------------------|------------------------|
When I said I
[Am
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 +
e|-----------------------|------------------------|
B|--------------------3--|------------------------|
G|5----------------------|4---2-------------------|
D|-----------------------|------------------------|
A|-----------------------|------------------------|
E|-----------------------|------------------------|
nee- ded you-ou
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CHORDS
E-A-D-G-B-e
Am7 x-0-2-0-1-0
Gmaj7 3-x-0-0-0-2
Cmaj7 x-3-2-0-0-0
B7 x-2-4-2-4-2
B7-13 x-2-4-2-4-3 = B7add(b13)
B7sus4 x-2-4-2-5-2
For the soft Em keyboard touch at the beginning of verses 2 and 3
(thanks to stingamajig !), I'd suggest the following:
[ Em *] x-x-x-4-5-3
Verse 3
Em * 0-2-2-0-0-3
Emadd9 0-2-2-0-0-2
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Verse 1
[Am7]
When I said, I needed you
[D7] [Gmaj7]
You said you would always stay
[Cmaj7] [Am7]
It wasn't me who changed, but you
[F#m7] | [B7] | % |
And know you've gone away
Verse 2
[B7] [ [Em] *] [Am]
(break) Don't you know ... that now you're gone
[D7] [Gmaj7]
And I'm left here on my own
[Cmaj7] [Am7]
Now I have to follow you
[F#m7] | [B7] | [B7-13] [B7] |
And beg you to come home
Chorus
[E] [C#m]
You don't have to say you love me
[F#m7] [B7sus4] [B7]
Just be close at hand
[E] [C#m]
You don't have to stay forever
[F#m7] [B7]
I will understand
[E] [G#m]
Believe me, believe me
[C#m]
I can't help but love you
[F#m7] | [B7] | % |
But believe me, I'll never tie you down
Verse 3
[B7] [ [Em] *] [Am]
(break) Left alone ... with just a memory
[D7] [Gmaj7]
Life seems dead and so unreal
[Cmaj7] [Am7]
All that's left is loneliness
[B7] | [Em] | [Em] * [Emadd9] |
There's nothing left to feel
Chorus
[E] [C#m]
You don't have to say you love me
[F#m7] [B7sus4] [B7]
Just be close at hand
[E] [C#m]
You don't have to stay forever
[F#m7] [B7]
I will understand
[E] [C#]
Believe me, believe me
Chorus
[F#] [D#m]
You don't have to say you love me
[G#m7] [C#7sus4] [C#7]
Just be close at hand
[F#] [D#m]
You don't have to stay forever
[G#m7] [C#7]
I will understand
Coda
[F#] | [E] |
Believe me
[F#] | [E] |
Believe me 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 1
| [F#] | % | [F#] [F#] | [F#]
Believe me (breaks)
