Chords for Keeping the Faith

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If it seems like I've been lost in let's remember, _ [D] you think I'm feeling older and missing my
younger days, oh [G] then you should have known me much better, if my past is something that
never got in my way, oh no. _
Yet I would not be here now if I never had the hunger, _
and I'm not ashamed to say the wild boys were my friends, oh, [G] cause I've never felt the desire
to let music set me on fire, and [D] I will say, [A] _ [G] yeah, _ it's why I'm [A] keeping the faith,
_ _ yeah, [G#] yeah, [D] yeah, yeah, keeping the faith.
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Long matador, Stony Flag brothers had him with a Cuban heel,
_ iridescent socks with the same color shirt and a tight pair of [A]
chinos,
[G] oh, I put on my shark skin jacket, you know the kind with the velvet collar [D] and bitted up shades,
oh, yeah, _ like a fresh pack of lookies and a mint car sensing, _ _
my old man's Trojans and his old spice _ aftershave, oh, comb my hair in a pompadour,
like the rest of the Romeo's war, a [D] permanent _ _ [G] wave, yeah, we were [A] keeping the _ faith, [G] yeah, yeah, [D] yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, keeping the faith, _ you _ _ [A] can get just so [G] much from a good thing,
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you [A] can linger too long in [F#m] your dreams, say [A] goodbye to the oldies, [C#] but goodies,
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[Em] cause the good old days weren't always [E] good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it [D] seems,
learned stickball as a formal education, _ lost a lot of fights, but it taught me how to lose, okay, _
oh, [G] I heard about sex, but not enough, found you could dance and still look [D] tough anyway,
_ _ oh, yes, I did, _ _ found that a man ain't just being macho, _
ate an awful lot of late night driving food, drank a lot of take-home pay,
[G] I thought I was the Duke of Burke, when I made it with a redhead girl in the [D] Chevrolet,
_ [G] oh, yeah, we were [A] keeping the faith, _ [G] yeah, [G#] yeah, yeah, [D] yeah, yeah, _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] oh, _ _ [D] _ yeah, [A] oh, _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
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[Em] you know the good old days weren't always [A] good, tomorrow ain't as bad as it [A] [D] seems,
told you my reasons for the whole revival, _ _ now I'm going outside to have
an ice cold beer in the shade, oh, [G] I'm gonna listen to my 45's, ain't it wonderful to be
life when the rock [D] and roll _ _ [G] plays, yeah, _ when the [A] memory stays, _ [G] yeah, I'll keep [A] in the _ faith, [G] yeah, yeah, [F#] yeah, yeah, yeah.
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