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Keeping the Faith  Billy Joel

 
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KEEPING THE FAITH - Billy Joel
 
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Transcribed by Dan Morris (dmorris@cs.stanford.edu)
For most of the verse, the guitar is playing D with a hammer-on
to G every measure :
 
 |-----------------------------|
 |--7-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7h8--7-x-x-|
 |--7-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7----7-x-x-|
 |--7-x-7-x-x-7-x-x-7h9--7-x-x-|
 |--5-x-5-x-x-5-x-x------------|
 |-----------------------------|
 --- verse ---

[D] 
If it seems like I've been lost in let's remember
[D] 
If you think I'm feeling older and missing my younger days
[G] 
Oh, then you should have known me much better
[G] 
Cause my past is something that never
[D] 
Got in my way oh no
[D] 
Still I would not be here now if I never had the hunger
[D] 
And I'm not ashamed to say the wild boys were my friends
[G] 
Cause I never felt the desire 'til their music set me on fire
 
 --- chorus ---

[A6] [G] 
And then I was saved, yeah
[A6] 
that's why I'm keeping the faith
[G] 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[D] 
Keeping the faith
 
 --- verse ---

We wore matador boots
Only Flagg Brothers had them with the Cuban heel
Iridescent socks with the same color shirt
And a tight pair of chinos
I put on my shark skin jacket
You know the kind with the velvet collar
And ditty-bop shades
I took a fresh pack of Luckies
And a mint called Sen-Sen
My old man's Trojans
And his Old Spice after shave
Combed my hair in a pompadour
Like the rest of the Romeos wore
 
 --- chorus ---

A permanent wave yeah
We were keeping the faith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keeping the faith
 
 --- bridge ---

[A] [G] [D] 
You can get just so much from a good thing
[A] [G] [D] 
You can linger too long in your dreams
[A] [G] [D] 
Say goodbye to the oldies but goodies
[em7] 
Cause the good old days weren't always good
[A7] 
And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems
 
 --- verse ---

Learned stickball as a formal education
Lost a lot of fights nut it taught me how to lose O.K.
I heard about sex but not enough
I found you could dance and still look tough anyway
I found out a man ain't just being macho
Ate an awful lot of late night drive-in food drank a lot of take-home pay
I thought I was the Duke of Earl when I made it with a red-haired girl
 
 --- chorus ---

In a Chevrolet
We were keeping the faith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keeping the faith
 
 --- solo ---

[A] [G] [D] 
[A] [G] [D] 
[A] [G] [D] 
[em7] 
You know the good old days weren't always good
[A7] 
And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems
 
 --- last verse ---

[D] 
Now I told you my reasons for the whole revival
Now I'm going outside to have an ice cold beer in the shade
[G] 
I'm going to listen to my 45's, ain't it wonderful to be alive
[A6] [G] 
When the rock 'n' roll plays Yeah
[A6] [G] 
When the memory stays Yeah
[A6] 
I'm keeping the faith
[G] 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[D] 
Keeping the faith...
 
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Dan Morris
dmorris@cs.stanford.edu
http://techhouse.brown.edu/dmorris
 
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