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I Don't Have The Heart

by James Ingram · posted by WaltP

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I DON’T HAVE THE HEART
By: Allan Rich & Jud Friedman
James Ingram
Key: D

 -5   -3 -2* -4-3 -4 
Your face is beam-ing
-1  -1   -2*    -3    4*    6 -5 -5
You say it's ‘cause you’re dream-ing
5* -5  4*-4  -4  -3  3  -3 -32-2*
Of how good it’s go-ing to   be
-5  -3    -2*   -4  4* -4-3
You say you’ve been a-round
-1  -2*   -3   -6* -5  6  -5 6
And now you’ve fi-nal-ly found
-4  5*   -5    -6*
Ev-‘ry-thing you’ve 
  6 -5-4-3 -4  -6* -6* -4 -6*6
Want-ed   and need-ed  in  me

-6* 6    -5   5*   -4  -6* -6* 6 6-6*
I don’t have the heart to hurt   you
 -5  -5    7   -6*  6 -5  -5 -6*6-5-4-3 
It’s the last thing I wan-na     do
-3 -6*  6    -5   5*   -4  -6*-6*6 6-6*6-5 
But I don’t have the heart to love   you
-4  -5   7 -6*6  6   -5 -5
Not the way you want me to

-5  -3  -2* -4-3-3-4 -1 -2* -34* 6 -5 -5
In-side I’m  dy-ing  To see you cry- ing
-5  5*-4-4  -3   3  -3 -3  -32-2* 
How can  I make you un-der-stand
-5 -3 -2* -4 4* -4-3 
I care a- bout  you
-1  -1 -1 -2*  -3   6  6
So much a-bout you, ba-by
-4   4*  4* -5 -6*  -6* -4  -4 -6*-6*-6* 6
I’m try-ing to say this as gent-ly as I can

  -6* -6* 6    -5   5*   -4  -6* -6* 6 6-6* 
‘Cause I don’t have the heart to hurt you
-5  -5    7   -6*  6 -5  -5 -6*6-5-4-3 
It’s the last thing I wan-na     do
-3 -6*  6    -5   5*   -4  -6*-6*6 6-6*6-5 
But I don’t have the heart to love   you
-4  -5   7 -6*6  6   -5 -5
Not the way you want me to

   7   -7  -6* 6-6* -5 -6* 6-6*  
You’re so trust-ing and o- pen
 5* -5   6    -5  -7-6* -6*6
Hop-ing that love will start
 3 -2*  -3   -5  -2*   3   -6* 6 6-6*
But I don’t have the heart, oh,   no
-2* -3   -5  -6* 7-6*6
I don’t have the heart

-6* 6    -5   5*   -4  -6* -6* 6 6-6*
I don’t have the heart to hurt   you
 -5  -5    7   -6*  6 -5  -5 -6*6-5-4-3 
It’s the last thing I wan-na     do
-3 -6*  6    -5   5*   -4  -6*-6*6 6-6*6-5 
But I don’t have the heart to love   you
-4  -5   7 -6*6  6   -5 -5
Not the way you want me to

-6* 6    -5   5*   -4  -6* -6* 6 6-6*
I don’t have the heart to hurt   you
 -5  -5    7   -6*  6 -5  -5 -6*6-5-4-3 
It’s the last thing I wan-na     do
-3 -6*  6    -5   5*   -4  -6*-6*6 6-6*6-5 
But I don’t have the heart to love   you
-4  -5   7 -6*6  6   -5 -5
Not the way you want me to
 
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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