{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":67000,"song":"Keep It","artist":"Dexys Midnight Runners","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11543835-keep-it-chords-by-dexys-midnight-runners/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/67000?type=chord","rating":0.16261,"votes":0,"content":"KEEP IT by DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS\r\n\r\nWritten by Kevin Archer and Jeff Blythe\r\nOn 'Searching For The Young Soul Rebels' (Parlophone, 1980)\r\n(c) EMI Music Publishing Ltd. 1980\r\n\r\nChords used:\r\n\r\n[ch]A[/ch]:  577655\r\n[ch]F#[/ch]: 244322\r\n[ch]E7[/ch]: x7675x\r\n[ch]D[/ch]:  x5777x\r\n[ch]C#[/ch]: x4666x\r\n[ch]E[/ch]:  x7999x\r\n\r\n[ch]A[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] (x2)\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                [ch]C#[/ch]            [ch]F#[/ch]\r\n The world lives in your front room[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nYou're sitting happy in gloom[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nFate worries you, you will not give her room[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C#[/ch]         [ch]F#[/ch]                     [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nYou give credit for might, inspiration and sight,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut you miss the point, you won't join in the fight[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]C#[/ch]        [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nYou think to use is to lose[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nSo you're clinging, pulling, pleading[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTry to keep it safe[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nKeep it cosy but it feels so out of place[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou're feeling a loss but you're not fit to make it[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou're offered so much but you're frightened to take it.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]A[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] (x2)\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]         [ch]C#[/ch]         [ch]F#[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]E7[/ch]\r\n It never was really proved, never was understood,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut there really is no virtue in the good[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C#[/ch]          [ch]F#[/ch]                            [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nThey're shouting so loud that they'd do better to mine[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nYou're deafened and you cannot hear the rhyme[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C#[/ch]         [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nBut secrets in whispers pull you, try to tempt you[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTry and keep it safe[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nKeep it cosy but it feels so out of place[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou're feeling a loss but you're not fit to make it[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou're offered so much but you're not going to take it.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]A[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C#[/ch]         [ch]F#[/ch]                       [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]E7[/ch]\r\n You beg for help and advice, how to handle your life,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut you dare not move, you cannot pay the price[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C#[/ch]             [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nChances slip, you just shatter, flatter, forget what matters[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nSpout your lines, read all your books[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou hear the sounds, miss all the hooks[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYour best is what you least understand[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou hate the graft, won't join the race,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou're scared to scar your pretty face[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nState now cos your head's in the sand.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] (x6)\r\n\r\n[ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] (rpt. til fade)","plain_text":"KEEP IT by DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS\n\nWritten by Kevin Archer and Jeff Blythe\nOn 'Searching For The Young Soul Rebels' (Parlophone, 1980)\n(c) EMI Music Publishing Ltd. 1980\n\nChords used:\n\nA:  577655\nF#: 244322\nE7: x7675x\nD:  x5777x\nC#: x4666x\nE:  x7999x\n\nA F# E7 D (x2)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA F# (x2)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA F# E7 D\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nD E (x6)\n\nA E D E (rpt. til fade)","chords":["A","F#","E7","D","C#","E"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]}}}