You Keep Me Hangin On Uke tab by The Supremes

11 Chords used in the song: A, Em, Fmaj7, Esus4, Em/D, Bb, F, C, G, E, Am

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Year:  1967
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You keep me hangin on - The Supremes

A A Em Em
Set me free why dont cha baby
Em Em Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Esus Esus
get out my life why dont cha baby
A A Em Em
cos you dont really love me you just
Em Em Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Esus Esus
keep me hangin' on
A A Em Em
Cos you dont really need me
Em/D Em/D Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Esus Esus
but you keep me hangin' on


Bb Bb
Why do you keep a comin around
F F C C
playing with my heart?
Bb Bb
Why dont you get out of my life
F F C C Em Em
and let me make a new start?
G G
Let me get over you the
E E
way you've gotten over me


A A Em Em
Set me free why dont cha baby
Em Em Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Esus Esus
let me be why dont cha baby
A A Em Em
cos you dont really love me you just
Em Em Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Esus Esus
keep me hangin' on
A A Em Em
Cos you dont really want me
Em Em Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Esus Esus
but you keep me hangin' on

Bb Bb
You say although we broke up
F F C C
you still wanna be just friends
Bb Bb
But how can we still be friends
F F A A
when seeing you only breaks my heart again
E E
{spoken}And there aint nothin i can do about it


A A Em Em
Set me free why dont cha baby
Em Em Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Esus Esus
get out my life why dont cha baby
A A Em Em
Set me free why dont cha baby
Em Em Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Esus Esus
get out my life why dont cha baby

You claim you still care for me
but your heart and soul needs to be free
now that youve got your freedom
you wanna still hold on to me
You dont want me for yourself
so let me find somebody else

Why dont cha be a man about it and set me free
Now you dont care a thing about me
youre just a using me
C'mon, get out, get out of my life
and let me sleep at night
Cause you dont really love me
You just keep me hangin on
A A Am Am
Cause you dont really need me
Em Em F F Am Am
so let me be set me free

Uke tab by , 03 Jan 2013

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About this song: You Keep Me Hangin On

"You Keep Me Hangin' On" is a 1966 number-one hit song originally recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, the song became The Supremes' eighth number-one single, topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks in November 1966, and the number one the soul chart for four weeks. The track is one of the more oft-covered songs in the Supremes canon. They performed the song on the ABC variety program The Hollywood Palace on Saturday, October 29, 1966.

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