You Don’t Really Know Me
Recorded by Tim Easton
Album: You Don’t Really Know Me (2021)
(No Capo)
(Intro.)
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You don’t really (G)know me
You really know (C) next to nothing about (G) me
I’ll take you by the (Em)hand and help you under-(D)stand
You don’t really (G)know me
I was born by a (G)raging river
To a mother that (C) did deliver (G)
Six children to no (Em) harm
(D) I was the seventh she held (C)in her arms (G)
(Em) My Sisters (D)taught me how to (G)tie my shoes
My Brothers taught me the (C) Deep River Blues (G)
One told me I could (Em)write a book
(D) The other showed me how to (F)bait a hook (C)
You don’t really (G)know me
You really know (C) next to nothing about (G) me
I’ll take you by the (Em)hand and help you real-(F)ize
You don’t really (C)know me
You don’t really (G)know me
(Solo)
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(F) Sometimes you (C)learn from your mis-(G)takes
(Am) Other times you (C)stubbornly nurse (F) the pain (C )
(Em) Either way it (D)takes more than (C)one mistake
(G/B) To define a (Am)lifetime (G) or trace a (F)lifeline
(D)You don’t really (G)know me
(Solo)
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|(C) / (Am) / |(D) / (C) / |(G) / / / |(G) /
You don’t really (G)know me
You really know (C) next to nothing a-(G)bout me
I’ll take you by sur-(Em)prise, make you real-(F)ize
It’s not just all the (C)miles in between all the good-(Am)byes
It’s what will never (G)end and how I will de-(D)fend
The freedom that I (F)need, the love that I be-(C)lieve
The feeling under-(G)neath all the lines that go be-(D)tween
That give you some (F)idea of what I really (Am)feel
(G/B)You could get to (C)know me
(Am) (D)You don’t really (G)know me
(Outro.)
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