Chords with lyrics
Keep The Ball Rollin':Jay And The Techniques.
#14 on BB Hot 100 on SMASH Records
in 1967.
INTRO: DbDb BB A augmentedA Abm..Db BB A augmentedA Ab..
CHORUS:
DbDb DbmDbm DbDb
Keep the ball rollin'..keep the ball rollin'..girl, the
AbAb
name of the game is love.
Eb MajorEb AbAb Bb majorBb EbmEbm
On your mark, get set, let the kissin' start and just keep
DbDb F#F# DbDb A augmentedA D MajorD
the ball rollin', baby, right into my heart.
#1.
D MajorD E minorEm
How can you ask me to try and get by with just one little kiss?
A augmentedA
(one little kiss?)
E minorEm A augmentedA D MajorD D MajorD
The kissin' you do, I need a second helpin', too.. (need a second
Bb majorBb
helpin', need a second helping, too.)
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb AbAb
When you light the fire in my heart and every part of me is burning
with you.
DbDb F#F# Gm7Gm7
You've got to put your lips closer to mine (closer to mine)..
AbAb AbAb
Girl, you got to follow it through (you got to follow it through.)
AbAb AbAb
You got to follow it through..(you got to follow it through.)
CHORUS:
DbDb DbmDbm DbDb
Keep the ball rollin'..keep the ball rollin'..girl, the
AbAb
name of the game is love.
Eb MajorEb AbAb Bb majorBb EbmEbm
On your mark, get set, let the kissin' start and just keep
DbDb F#F# DbDb A augmentedA D MajorD
the ball rollin', baby, right into my heart.
#2.
D MajorD E minorEm
Half of a loaf isn't better than none, when I'm starvin' for you..
A augmentedA
(when I'm starvin' for you.)
E minorEm A augmentedA D MajorD Bb majorBb
Don't hold me tight, if every night we stop at two..(don't stop..keep
the ball rollin'.)
Eb MajorEb DbDb
If you want me there when you call, then girl, it's all or nothing..
AbAb
next time you do.
DbDb F#F#
You got to put your lips closer to mine (closer to mine)..
Gm7Gm7 Eb MajorEb AbAb AbAb
girl, you got to follow it through..(you got to follow it through)..
AbAb AbAb
you got to follow it through..(you got to follow it through.)
CHORUS:
DbDb DbmDbm DbDb
Keep the ball rollin'..keep the ball rollin'..girl, the
AbAb
name of the game is love.
Eb MajorEb AbAb Bb majorBb EbmEbm
On your mark, get set, let the kissin' start and just keep
F minorFm F#F# DbDb F#F# DbDb A augmentedA
the ball rollin', baby, right into my heart.
INTERLUDE: D MajorD G minorGm D MajorD
OUTRO:
D MajorD BB D MajorD
Yeah..keep the ball rollin'..keep the ball rollin'..girl, the name of
A augmentedA
the game is love.
E MajorE A augmentedA BB E minorEm F# minorF#m
On your mark, get set, let the kissin' start and just keep the ball rollin',
G+G D MajorD G+G D..Bb
baby, right into my heart..
...Ebm BB Ebm..B EbmEbm Abm..B EbmEbm Db..Abm Eb MajorEb DbDb B..(Fade.)
A augmentedA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.