Just The Way You Are
-Billy Joel
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Transcribed by Guitar Player Extraordinaire, Tim Stoll
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Note:
Notice that the Dominant 7/9 chord is used in the fourth
line (measure 13), while the minor7th chord is used in
the last line of each verse .
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Belpful chord voicings:
F11: F(open 5th string),B,G,B,F
Bmaj7: B,Cm,G,B

Frets the chords are played on:
B: 5th
F7/9: 7th
Bmaj7: 3rd
B7/9: 5th
Bm7: 3rd
Cm7: 2nd
Fm7: 5th
Gm7: 7th
Fm7: 9th
F11: 3rd
F: 5th
Fm: 6th
F: 8th
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Intro is in ?B?
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Verse 1:

B--------F7/9-----B7-+ ------B----------B7/9
Don't go changing, to try and please me

B7-+ ----b7- ----------Cm7?-Fm7-?B7/9
You never let me down before

B7-+ -Bm7?---c7- -----------g7
Don't imagine?. you're too familiar

F7/9-------------------F11
And I don't see you anymore

B-----------F7/9-----B7-+ -------B------B7/9
I would not leave you in times of trouble

B7-+ ---b7- -----------------Cm7?-Fm7?-B7/9
We never could have come this far

B7-+ -----b7- -------c7- -----------g7
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times

f7- ---------------------------B
I'll take you just the way you are
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Verse 2:

Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care

I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.
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Chorus:

B7-+ ----F------------------c7- ---g7
I need to know that you will always be

f7- ------------------------B-----B7/9
The same old someone that I knew

B- ----------F----------------f7- -----B
What will it take 'till you believe in me

b7- ----------------------F11
The way that I believe in you.
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Verse 3:

I said I love you, and that's forever
And this I promise from the heart
I couldn?t love you any better
f7- ------------------------B
I love you just the way you are.

(Saxophone solo)

(back to second half of verse 2,
?I don?t want clever conversation??
then fade w/ sax solo)

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