Eva Cassidy - I Can Only Be Me Chords & Tabs

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
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    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