Keeping the Faith

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEEPING THE FAITH - Billy Joel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --- AG 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 --- AGD You can get just so much from a good thing AGD You can linger too long in your dreams AGD 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 --- D D 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 AG When the rock 'n' roll plays Yeah AG When the memory stays Yeah A6 I'm keeping the faith G Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah D Keeping the faith... ---------------------------------- Dan Morris dmorris@cs.stanford.edu http://techhouse.brown.edu/dmorris ----------------------------------