You Keep Tightening Up On Me chords by The Box Tops

Chords with lyrics

You Keep Tightening Up On Me:The Box Tops.
92 on BB
Hot 100 on BELL Records in 1970.

INTRO: A augmentedA D MajorD A augmentedA

#1.
A augmentedA          D MajorD
I keep waitin', for you to do, something I
   A augmentedA
don't like.
A augmentedA          D MajorD
I keep waitin', but everything you do, you
    A augmentedA
do all right.
E MajorE            A augmentedA     E MajorE
You give me love when I want you, you leave
        A augmentedA
me alone when I don't.
E MajorE             A augmentedA       D MajorD
Somethin' says I ought to leave you, but somethin'
      B minorBm
tells me I won't.

CHORUS:
        E MajorE        A augmentedA     D MajorD
Cause you keep tightening up on me, and I can't
   B minorBm
break away.
        E MajorE        A augmentedA     D MajorD
Cause you keep tightening up on me, with a sweet
      B minorBm
love every day.
  C majorC     G+G         D MajorD
It scares me just a little bit, knowin' I'll never
  A augmentedA   E MajorE         A augmentedA
be free..woman, I'm at your mercy.
        D MajorD     E MajorE  D MajorD     E MajorE
Cause you keep tightening up, tightening up,
D MajorD     E MajorE   A augmentedA
tightening up on me, yeah, ooh, yeah..la la la.


INTERLUDE: A augmentedA D MajorD DmDm A augmentedA

#2.
A augmentedA              D MajorD
Your kind of love, makes it hard for a man to say
A augmentedA
no to you.
A augmentedA       D MajorD           A augmentedA
One look at me and I know I've got to go to you.
E MajorE       A augmentedA    D MajorD  E MajorE        A augmentedA
Even when I'm lookin' away, in my mind I can see you.
E MajorE          A augmentedA        D MajorD
I ain't sure that I love you, baby, but I know that
 B minorBm
I need you.

CHORUS:
        E MajorE        A augmentedA     D MajorD
Cause you keep tightening up on me, and I can't
   B minorBm
break away.
        E MajorE        A augmentedA     D MajorD
Cause you keep tightening up on me, with a sweet
      B minorBm
love every day.
  C majorC     G+G         D MajorD
It scares me just a little bit, knowin' I'll never
  A augmentedA   E MajorE         A augmentedA
be free..woman, I'm at your mercy.
        D MajorD     E MajorE  D MajorD     E MajorE
Cause you keep tightening up, tightening up,
D MajorD     E MajorE   A augmentedA
tightening up on me, yeah, ooh, yeah..la la la.


INTERLUDE: A augmentedA D MajorD DmDm A augmentedA

OUTRO:
     E MajorE        A augmentedA  D MajorD       B minorBm
You keep tightening up on me..I can't break away.
       E MajorE        A augmentedA
But you keep tightening up on me..(Fade.)


A augmentedA seventies smash from Kraziekhat.