Chords for Walter Charles "I Am What I Am"

House with it says I am what I am.
Ladies and gentlemen, here are Mr.
Walter Charles and Mr.
Jamie Ross from the Broadway cast of La Cage a Folle. _ _ _
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_ _ [G] All right, Albin, I shall try to explain it all.
_ Now, you know that the girl's parents are coming to visit.
And I told you that Sybil, the boy's mother, is coming. _ _
What I failed to tell you is that you're not. _
_ Albin, the girl's father, is that politician wants to impose
his morality on all of us and there's nothing to be done.
They are who they are and they're on their way [Ab] here.
And so for one night, [Cm] I shall be [Bbm] somebody else for them.
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I mean, when you think about it, it's very [Bbm] funny.
[Eb] Me [Ab] playing a diplomat with the French Foreign Service.
Sybil pretending to be my wife.
You _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ believe me.
It's one of those [C] stories [Eb] we'll laugh about for the [Ab] rest of our lives.
_ _ So what do you say?
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_ _ _ [Ab] Excuse me.
_ I have a show to finish. _ _ _ _ _
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_ We are [Eb] what we are and [Ab] what we are is an illusion. _ _
Now [Eb] it feels [Fm] hurting on heels, [Bbm] causing [Eb] confusion.
_ [Abm] [C] Face life, [Eb] though it's sometimes sweet [Ab] and sometimes bitter.
[Bb] Face life with a little guts and lots of_ [Ab] No!
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_ Get off. _ _ _ _
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_ I am _ _ _ what _ _ I am. _
_ _ _ _ I am my own _ special _ _ creation. _
[Cm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
Come _ _ [Cm] take a look. _ _
_ _ _ Give me [Ab] the hook.
_ _ [Ebm] For the _ [Db] ovation.
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_ _ [Ab] It's mine.
[C] And _ [Fm] I want to have a little pride [Ab] in _ [Fm] my world.
And [Dbm] it's not a place I have to hide in.
[Ab] Life's not worth a [Cm]
damn till you can _ [Fm] say, [C] hey [Fm] world, I [Db] am
_ what [Ab] I am.
_ _ [Bb] _ I am what [Dm] I am.
I don't [Gm] want grace.
I don't [Cm] want pity.
[Dm] _ [F] _ [Bb] _ I bang my [Dm] own drum.
Some think [Gm] it's noise.
I think [Cm] it's [Bb] pretty.
_ And so [D] what?
If I love each [Gm] feather and each spangle, [C] why not try to see
things from a different [Bb] angle?
Your life is [F] a sham [Gm] [F] till you [Gm] can shout out loud.
I [Eb] am what [F] I am. _
_ [Bb] _ [B] _ _ _ [Ebm] What I am and what [Abm] I am [Db] needs no [Gb] excuses.
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I [Ebm] [B] deal my own [Ebm] deck. _ _
[Abm] Sometimes the ace, [G] _ [Abm] sometimes the [Gb]
nooses.
_ There's [Abm] one life [Eb] and there's no [Abm] return and no deposit.
[Db] One life is always time to open up your [C] closet.
_ Life's not worth [Em] a damn till you can [Am] _ say, hey world, [Dm] I _ _ _ [C]
am
[G] what [D] _ _ [C] I _ [Am] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] _ am.
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