Take Me As I Am Or Let Me Go
Bobby Osborne
Three Tenors of Bluegrass
Transcribed by:  Verne Garrison
Banjo tuned E, Capo 3, Key of F

 	 
 	  	 


        F                C          F
Why must you always try to make me over 
             C           F
Take me as I am or let me go
                   
                   C                 Bb
White lilies never grow on stalks of clover
                    C      F
Take me as I am or let me go.

                   C                  F
You're trying to reshape me in a mould, love
                 C                 F
In the image of someone you used to know
                C               Bb
I won't be a stand-in for an old love
             C            F
Take me as I am or let me go.

      F                 C                   F
You've tried to change me ever since you've met me
            C            F
Take me as I am or let me go.
               C                     Bb
If you cannot overlook my faults, forget me
             C           F
Take me as I am or let me go.

                      C               F
You're trying to reshape me in a mould love
                    C                F
In the image of someone you used to know
                   C                Bb
But I won't be a stand-in for an old love
            C             F
Take me as I am or let me go.