{"id":12071,"date":"2022-08-02T17:47:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T17:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=12071"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:18:50","slug":"great-pretender-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/great-pretender-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Pretender, The"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Verse 1] - - - - - <\/span>O-h, [A] yes  I'm the [D] great  pre- [A] -tender, [A7] [ooh, ooh].    <\/span><\/span>Pre- [D] -tending  that I'm  doing [A] well, [A7] [ooh, ooh].    <\/span><\/span>My [D] need  is [E] such  I pre- [A] -tend  too [D] much.   <\/span><\/span>I'm [A] lonely  but [E7] no  one can [A] tell. [E] \r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n[Verse 2] - - - - - <\/span>O-h, [A] yes  I'm the [D] great  pre- [A] -tender, [A7] [ooh, ooh].    <\/span><\/span>A- [D] -drift  in a world  of my [A] own, [A7] [ooh, ooh].     <\/span><\/span>I [D] play  the [E] game  but to [A] my  real [D] shame.    <\/span><\/span>You've [A] left me  to [E7] dream  all a- [A] -lone, [A7] [ooh, ooh].<\/span><\/span> \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }<\/span>  - - - - - <\/span> Too [D] real  is this fee-ling  of [A] make  be- [A7] -lieve,  <\/span><\/span>[ooh, ooh].<\/span>    Too [D] real  when I feel  what my [A] heart  can't con- [E] -ceal.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n \r\n[VERSE THREE] - - - - - <\/span>[O-h, o-h, o-h], [A] yes  I'm the [D] great  pre- [A] -tender,  [A7] [ooh, ooh].    <\/span><\/span>Just [D] laugh-ing and gay  like a [A] clown, [A7] [ooh, ooh].    <\/span><\/span>I [D] seem  to [E] be  what I'm [A] not  you [D] see.    <\/span><\/span>I'm [A] wearing  my [E] heart  like a [B7++] crown.    <\/span><\/span>Pre- [A] -tending  that [E] you're  still a- [A] -round, [A7] [ooh, ooh].<\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n[REPEAT CHORUS]<\/span>\r\n \r\n[ REPEAT VERSE THREE]<\/span>\r\n[D] still   a - [A] -round.\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
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[Verse 1] – – – – – O-h, [A] yes I’m the [D] great pre- [A] -tender, [A7] [ooh, ooh]. Pre- [D] -tending that I’m doing [A] well, [A7] [ooh, ooh]. My [D] need is [E] such I pre- [A] -tend too [D] much. I’m [A] lonely but [E7] no … CLICK TO VIEW SONGGreat Pretender, The<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,133,126,265,116,117,115,68,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-love-songs","category-uke-juke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27595,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions\/27595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}