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You Can't Tell Me (I'm Not a Man) by Jake Edwards







             You Can't Tell Me (I'm Not a Man)







Tuning: E A D G B E

For the Verse 1 and 2, play the Chords like this:
 
   Gm                Bb                F                 C
 
e|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B|-----------------|-----------------|---1---1---1---1-|---1---1---1---1-|
G|---3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|-----------------|-----------------|
D|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A|-----------------|-1---1---1---1---|-3---3---3---3---|-----------------|
E|-3---3---3---3---|-----------------|-----------------|-3---3---3---3---|
 
 
 
[Intro]
Gm Bb F C
Gm Bb F C
 
 
[Verse 1]
       Gm                Bb
How do you know you’re a man?
      F              C
Is it in the way you shape your hand
        Gm
Into a fist?
       Bb              F
Never kissed by your emotions
         C
Or the devotion to never crying
 
 
[Interlude]
Gm Bb F C
 
 
[Verse 2]
       Gm               Bb
How do you look at the world
     F           C
And only see a little girl
          Gm
Behind a mask
          Bb              F
I never asked for your approval
        C*
Just removal of prejudiced bastards
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Gm              Bb
I will never believe you
           F                C
When you tell me I’m not a man
     Gm                  Bb
I’ll never raise my fist to you
           F                    C
I’ll make love hearts with my hands
 
 
[Chorus]
              Gm   Bb
‘Cause I’m a man,
     F                  C
And more than you will ever be
      Gm         Bb
I’m a man, yes I am
     F                  C
And more than you will ever see
              Gm Bb F C
‘Cause I am free
 
 
[Verse 3]
           Gm             Bb
What’s the difference anyway
          F                 C
Some are born and some are made
        Gm              Bb
After a war inside our heads
             F
And then we put the doubt to bed
                    C
Can we please just put your doubts to bed
 
 
[Verse 4]
         Gm
I don’t see what I gotta prove
        Bb
Don’t think about what I will lose
 F
Focus on the fight at hand
     C
And know that I’m a real man
 
 Gm
Someday I will prove to you
       Bb
That black and white and pink and blue
       F
Mean shit to my identity
          C
There's greys in masculinity
 
 
[Chorus]
              Gm        Bb
‘Cause I’m a man, yeah
     F                  C
And more than you will ever be
       Gm            Bb
I’m a man, yes I am
     F                  C
And more than you will ever see
              Gm Bb F C
‘Cause I am free
 
 
[Bridge]
Gm
You can judge and break me down
    Bb
But I will always be around
     F
I’m getting stronger everyday
       C
It’s building in my DNA
      Gm
The world’s a stage, but I refuse
       Bb
To be told exactly what to do
 F
Fuck the roles and fuck the lines
     C
I’m not someone you can define
 
 
[Chorus]
             Gm*   Bb*
‘Cause I’m a man, yeah
     F*                 C*
And more than you will ever be
       Gm*  Bb*
I’m a man, yes I am
     F*                 C*
And more than you will ever see
             Gm    Bb
‘Cause I’m a man, yes I am
     F                  C
And more than you will ever be
       Gm   Bb
I’m a man, yes I am
     F                  C
And more than you will ever see
              Gm Bb F C
‘Cause I am free
 
 
[Outro]
       Gm    Bb
I am free, free
          F           C
From the confines of masculinity
 
       Gm    Bb
I am free, free
          F           C
From the confines of masculinity
 
 
Gm
 
 
 
 
* Strum Once







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