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Tell ’em all I’m on va ca tion,
blow in’ say I went lar to vis it friends,
Tell ’em that you ain’t heard or seen from me in quite a while ’cause
when they ask you where I’ve (D)been.
Tell ’em I’m out on the west coast some where it don’t (D)ev er rain
and that I’m prob ’ly do in’ (D)fine.
Just don’t tell ’em I’ve gone cra zy,
that I’m still strung out o ver you.
Tell ’em an y thing you want to, just don’t (E)tell ’em all the truth.
Yeah, don’t tell ’em all
the truth.
Tell ’em all I’m out in Ve gas,
blow in’ ev ’ry dol lar I ev er made.
Tell ’em that that I must be in to some thin’ bad for me ’cause
I sure lost a lot of (D)weight.
Tell ’em I’m out on the road with some old rock and (D)roll er band,
and liv in’ like a gyp sy (D)can.
Just don’t tell ’em I’ve gone cra zy,
that I’m still strung out o ver you.
Tell ’em an y thing you want to, just don’t (E)tell ’em all the truth.
Yeah, don’t tell ’em all
the truth.
The (D)truth is that I’m ask in’ you to lie, and we both know that it ain’t right.
But if you ev er loved me, please have some mer cy on me,
(A)yeah.
Tell ’em an y thing you want to, just don’t (E)tell ’em all the truth.
Yeah, don’t tell ’em all
the truth.
I still need (A)you.
(E)Yeah, that’s (D)the truth.
(E)I still (D)love (A)you.
Ba (E)by, that’s (D)the truth.
This page shows “The Truth” by Jason Aldean in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of A at 150 BPM, a medium-difficulty arrangement — try slowing the tempo down using the BPM control.