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Please Me Like You Want To

Ben Harper
TabTuningDrop D
4.7(39)

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Intro and Chorus

|D|C|G|D|

e|--------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------|
D|---6h7p6-------4h5p4-----------------6h7p6--|
A|---7-----7\5-5-5----5--4-4-4h5/6/7---7----7-|
E|-0--------------------5------------0--------|

Verse

|D|C|G|G|

e|-----------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------|
D|---6h7p6---------------------------------------|
A|---7----7\5------0---4h5p4---4---4h5p4---4-----|
E|-0----------0-h2---5-------5---5~------5-------|

Solo

|D|C|G|G|

e|------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------|
A|-5/7-7-2/4/5-4h5/7\5p4---4h5/7\5---4h5/7\5p4----|
E|----------------------5---------5-----------5---|

Slide to 7th fret 1st string at the end of the second repetition

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| h Hammer-on

| p Pull-off

| / Slide up

| \ Slide down

| ~ Vibrato

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Structure

Intro 2x

Verse 8x

Chorus 5x

Solo 2x

Verse 10x

Chorus 7x

Lyrics:

Don't do me any favors

matter of fact why don't you

do yourself a few

your presence ain't nobody's blessing

I've got plenty of other things

I could do

oh no, not another excuse

your tired silly games

for me are just no use

and now it's plain for me to see

you're with somebody

that you don't wanna be

so won't you

please please me like you want to

not like you have to

or won't you just go on and leave me

leaving me is the least that you could do

you could have spared me

so much misery

and told me you just wanted

a friend

believe me there is a difference

when you mean it

and when you pretend

or was I just your habit

cause I know a habit

is a hard thing to break

but won't you spare me

a little mercy

there's only so much

so much that I can take

so won't you

please please me like you want to

not like you have to

or won't you just go on and leave me

leaving me is the least that you could do

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