Don't Be Cruel (chromatic)

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DON’T BE CRUEL (TO A HEART THAT’S TRUE)
By: Otis Blackwell & Elvis Presley
Key: C

-7    7  7  7  -7   8
You know I can be found,
 7    7    7   7 -7   8
Sit-ting home all a-lone,
5  -7   -7    -7 -7   -7
If you can't come a-round, 
-7   7     7     7 -7   8
at least please tel-e-phone.
  6   7    -5  -5 6   5     -5   6 5
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.

7  7   7  7   7  -7   8
Ba-by, if I made you mad 
-7    7    7   7   7    -7    8
for some-thing I might have said,
  -7     -7   -7  -7  -7   -7
Please, let's for-get the past, 
-7   7   7    7      7  -7   8
the fu-ture looks bright a-head,
  6   7    -5  -5 6   5     -5   6 5
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.

5   5    -7  -7 -7  -7  -8
I don't want no oth-er love,
-7 -7  -7   -7  -8  -8    -3  -4  5
Ba-by it's just you I'm think-ing of.

  7     7    7   -7  8  8
Don't stop think-ing of me, 
  -7    7  7   7    -7   8
don't make me feel this way,
  8  -7 -7 -7  -7  -7   -7  -7
Come on o-ver here and love me, 
-7    7    7  6  7    7  -7  8
you know what I want you to say.
  6   7   -5   -5 6   5     -5   6 5
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.
 5    -7   -7 -7 -7 -8
Why should we be a-part?
-8 -7  -7  -7  -7  -8 -8    -3  -4   5
I real-ly love you ba-by, cross my heart.

 -7     7  7  7  -7     8   8
Let's walk up to the preach-er 
-7   7  7   7 -7  8
and let us say I do,
 -7    -7    -7  -7   -7  -7  
Then you'll know you have me, 
-7    7    7  7 6    7  7-7  8
and I'll know I'll have you too
  6   7    -5  -5 6   5    -5    6 5
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.
5   5    -7  -7 -7  -7  -8
I don't want no oth-er love,
-7 -7  -7   -7  -8  -8    -3  -4  5
Ba-by it's just you I'm think-ing of.

  6   7    -5  -5 6   5     -5   6 5
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.
  6   7    -5  -5 6   5     -5   6 5
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.
5   5    -7  -7 -7  -7  -8
I don't want no oth-er love,
-7 -7  -7   -7  -8  -8   -3   -4   5
Ba-by it's just you I'm think-ing of.

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