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You Keep Me Hangin On

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You Keep Me Hanging On:The Supremes.
#1 in 1966.

INTRO: Ab Ebm F# E
  
CHORUS:  
Ab               Ebm             F#                      E 
Set me free, why don't you babe..get out of my life, why don't you babe? 
Ab                     Ebm               F#              E
Cause you don't really love me..you just keep me hanging on. 
Ab               Ebm              F#              E 
You don't really need me..but you keep me hanging on. 
  
#1. 
A                              E               B 
Why do you keep coming around, playing with my heart? 
A                                 E                 B    Ebm 
Why doncha get out of my life and let me make a new start? 
F#                       Eb7 
Let me get over you, the way you've gotten over me. Hey! 
  
CHORUS:  
Ab              Ebm              F#            E 
Set me free why don't you, babe..let me be why don't you babe? 
Ab                     Ebm               F#              E 
Cause you don't really love me..you just keep me hanging on, ooo, ooo. 
Ab                   Ebm               F#              E 
Now you don't really want me..you just keep me hanging on. 
  
#2.  
A                                 E                     B 
You say although we broke up, you still want to be just friends. 
A                                     E                      
But how can we still be friends, when seein' you only breaks 
   Ab 
my heart again? (Spoken: )And there ain't nothing I can do about it. 

CHORUS:
Ab                           Ebm 
Whoa-oh-oh, set me free..why don't you babe? 
F#                                  E 
Whoa-oh-oh, get out of my life..why don't you babe? 
Ab                           Ebm 
Whoa-oh-oh, set me free..why don't you babe? 
F#                      E 
Get out of my life, why don't you babe?
  
#3.  
A                                        E                         B 
You claim you still care for me but your heart and soul need to be free. 
A                                         E                        B  Ebm 
And now that you've got your freedom, you want to still hold on to me. 
F#                                                      Eb7 
You don't want me for yourself, so let me find somebody else, hey hey. 
  
OUTRO:   
  
Ab                 Ebm           F#         E 
Why don't you be a man about it..and set me free? 
Ab                    Ebm             F#                E 
Now, you don't care a thing about me..you're just using me.
Ab                  Ebm             F#                  E 
Go on, get out, get out of my life..and let me sleep at night. 
Ab               Ebm               F#              E 
You don't really love me..you just keep me hanging on..(Fade.)


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