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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)