Just The Way You Are (chromatic)

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE
By: Billy Joel
Key: D

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Don't go chang-ing to try and please me, 
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You nev-er let me down be-fore
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Don't im-ag-ine you're too fa-mil-iar 
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And I don't see you an- y  more. 
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I would not leave you in times of trou-ble. 
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We nev-er could have come this far. 
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I took the good times, 
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I'll take the bad times. 
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I'll take you just the way you are. 

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Don't go try-ing some new fash-ion. 
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Don't change the col-or of your hair. 
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You al-ways have my un-spok-en pas-sion, 
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Al-though I might not seem to 
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     care. 
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I don't want clev-er con-ver-sa-tion, 
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I nev-er want to work that hard.
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Mm      mm 
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I just want some-one that I can talk to, 
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I want you just the way you are.

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I need to know that you will al-ways be 
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The same old some-one that I knew. 
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Oh, what will it take 
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til you be-lieve in me 
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The way that I be-lieve in you. 
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I said I love you and that's for-ev-er, 
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And this I prom-ise from the heart. 
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I could not love you 
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an- y  bet-ter. 
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I love you just the way you are. 

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I don't want clev-er con-ver-sa-tion, 
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I nev-er want to work that hard.
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Mm      mm 
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I just want some-one that I can talk to, 
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I want you just the way you 
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             are.

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