Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel

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[Intro]

      
      


[Verse 1]

          
Don't go chang

         
in'  to try pl

     
ease me       

           
you never let 

           
me down before
    
Mmmm          

          
Don't imagine 

/           
   you're too 

   
familiar
       
And I don't se

       
e you anymore


[Refrain 1]

           
 I would not  

        
leave you     

              
in times of tr

    
ouble
         
     we never 

           
could have com

       
e this far
    
Mmmm         I

            
 took the good

          
 times    I'll

          
 take the bad 

times
           
   I'll take y

           
ou just the wa

                  
y you are


[Verse 2]

           
  Don't go try

        
ing    some ne

        
w fashion
         
    Don't chan

            
ge the colour 

        
of your hair
    
  Mmmm       Y

            
ou always have

          
 my   unspoken

  
 passion
        
  Although I m

            
ight not seem 

   
to care


[Refrain 2]

             
I don't want c

      
lever      con

       
versation     

          
  I never want

              
 to work that 


hard
    
Mmmm         I

            
 just want som

          
eone    that I

     
 can talk to
           
   I'll want y

           
ou just the wa

                  
y you are


[Bridge]

         
     I need to

            
 know that you

          
 will always  


be
           
   the same ol

         
d someone that

       
 I knew
            
  What will it

             
 take till you

         
 believe in me
            
  The way that

           
 I believe in 


you


[Refrain 3]

          
 I said I love

         
 you    & 

            
 that's foreve


r
         
 and this I pr

            
omise from the

  
 heart
    
Mmmm          

            
I couldn't lov

          
e you     any 


better
           
   I'll love  

           
you just the w

                  
ay you are


[Solo]

                


[Refrain 4]

             
I don't want c

     
lever  convers

      
ation        I

            
 never want to

           
 work that har

#
d
    
Mm            

            
I just want so

          
meone    that 

       
I can talk to
            
   I want you 

        
just the way y

               
ou are

[Outro]

                           (Repeat to fade)


Suggested Intro (arpeggiated)
xx0353. xx0087, xx0085, xx0232

Or this:

e|---------3--
B|-----3---3--
G|---2-----3--
D|-0-------0--
A|------------
E|------------

------|-------
3-----|-----3-
--3---|---2---
----0-|-0-----
------|-------
------|-------

-7--5-----|---
-8----7---|---
-7------7-|---
-0--------|--0
----------|---
----------|---

-------3------
----3--3--3---
--2----3----2-
-------0------
--------------
--------------

--|--------7--
--|-----3--8--
--|---2----7--
0-|-0------0--
--|-----------
--|-----------

5-----|-2-----
--7---|-3-----
----7-|-2-----
------|-0-----
------|-------
------|-------

----|
----|
----|
----|
----|
----|


Suggested ways to do certain chords:
D9      x54530  (D7 is an easier alternative)
E9sus4  020202  (E7sus and E7 are easier alternatives for the E9's)
      020102
     x20102
     3x5553