F |G . . . |. . /a /b |C . . . |. /g /a /b | C F Why must you always try to make me over G7 C G7 Take me as I am or let me go C C7 F White lilies never grow on stalks of clover G7 C F C /c-b-a Take me as I am or let me go.
G7 C
You're tryin' to reshape me in a mold love
D7 F G
In the image of someone you used to know
C /b C7/Bb F
C
Em
These are the words of a frontier lad
Am G
Who lost his love when he turned bad.
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C
Take a message to Mary
F G C
But don't tell her where I am
Take a message to Mary
F G C
But don't say I'm in a jam.
Am Em
You can tell her that I had to see the world
Am D G
Tell her that my ship set sail
C G F C