Song: You keep me hangin' on
Artist: The Supremes
Composers: Holland, Dozier & Holland
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' at ultimateGuitar.com)
31st Jan 2015
TUNING:
The original track is in the key of Ab, so to play
along tune all strings down a half -step to
D#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#
You can choose not to detune, but, in standard
tuning, you will be playing a semi-tone higher, and
not be able to play along with the original record.
N.B.
Please ignore any pop-up chord boxes the website
might automatically suggest, instead please use the
typed shapes indicated below in the chord legend:
A = xx7655 C7sus4 = x33311 G = 320033
G6 = xx5455 F = 133211 E7/B = x22130
G6/D = xx0055 C = x32010 E = 022100
Fmaj7 = xx3555 Em/B = x22000
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[Intro]
A G6 G6/D Fmaj7
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[Chorus]
A G6
Set me free, why don't you, baby?
G6/D Fmaj7
Get out my life, why don't you,baby?
A G6
'Cause you don't really love me,
G6/D Fmaj7
You just keep me hanging on,
A G6
You don't really need me,
G6/D Fmaj7
But you keep me hanging on!
[Verse 1]
C7sus4
Why do you keep a-coming around,
F C
Playing a - with my heart?
C7sus4
Why don't you get out of my life,
F C
And let me make a new start?
Em/B G
Let me get over you,
E7/B E
The way you've gotten over me!
[Chorus]
A G6
Hey, ...set me free, why don't you, baby?
G6/D Fmaj7
Let me be, why don't you, baby?
A G6
(Woo -oo, hoo, oo!) 'Cause you don't really love me,
G6/D Fmaj7
You just keep me hanging on,
A G6
(Woo - oo, hoo, oo!) Now you don't really want me,
G6/D Fmaj7
You just keep me hanging on!
[Verse 2]
C7sus4
You say, although we broke up,
F C
You still want to be just friends,
C7sus4
But how can we still be friends,
F A
When seeing you only breaks my heart again?
A
And there ain't nothing I can do about it!
[Chorus]
A
Woh - oo, woh -oo, love,
G6
(Set me free, why don't you, baby?)
G6/D
Woh - oo, woh -oo, love,
Fmaj7
(Get out my life!) Why don't you, baby?
A G6
Set me free, why don't you, baby?
G6/D Fmaj7
Get out my life, why don't you, baby?
[Verse 3]
C7sus4
You claim you still care for me,
F C
But your heart and soul needs to be free,
C7sus4
And now that you've got your freedom,
F C
You want to still hold on to me,
Em/B G
You don't want me for yourself,
E7/B E
So let me find somebody else...hey-hey!
[Verse 4]
A G6
Why don't you be a man about it,
G6/D Fmaj7
And set me free?
A G6
Now ...you don't care a thing about me,
G6/D Fmaj7
You're just using me,
A G6
Go on, ...get out, get out of my life,
G6/D Fmaj7
And let me sleep at night,
A G6
Please, ...'cause you don't really love me,
G6/D Fmaj7
You just keep me hanging on,
A G6
(Woo - oo, hoo, oo!) You don't really need me,
G6/D
You just keep me hanging...
[Suggestion for coda -gradually slowing down]
Fmaj7 G6 A
...on!
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