Billy Joel - Keeping The Faith guitar tab
"Keeping the Faith"
Billy Joel
Transcribed by Dan Morris (dmorris@cs.stanford.edu)
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For most of the verse, the guitar is playing D with a hammer-on
to G every measure :
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|--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------------|
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[D]
If it seems...
[D]
If you think...
[G]
Oh, then you should...
[G]
Cause my past...
[D]
Got in my way
[D]
Still I would...
[D]
And I'm not...
[G]
Oh cause I never felt...
[A6] [G]
And then I was saved, yeah
[A6]
...keeping the faith
[G]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[D]
Keeping the faith
[D]
We wore matador...
[D]
Iridescent socks...
[G]
I put on my...
[D]
And ditty-bop shades
[D]
I took a fresh...
[D]
My old man's...
[G]
Combed my hair...
[A6] [G]
A permanent wave Yeah
[A6]
....the faith
[G]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[D]
Keeping the faith
[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 ole...
[A7]
And tomorrow...
[D]
Learned stickball...
[D]
Lost a lot of fights...
[G]
I heard about...
[G]
I found you...
[D]
anyway
[D]
I found out...
[D]
Ate an awful lot...
[D]
Drank a lot...
[G]
I thought I was...
[G]
When I made it...
[A6] [G]
In the Chevrolet Oh yeah
[A6]
We were keeping the faith
[G]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[D]
Keeping the faith
solo:
[A][G][D]
[A][G][D]
[A][G][D]
[em7]
You know the good...
[A7]
And tomorrow...
[D]
Now I told...
Now I'm going...
[G]
I'm going to listen...
[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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