Capo
3
Difficulty
Beginner
Rate for accuracy
🎸
Tuning: E A D G B E
Intro:
Riff 4x
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---2---2-----5p2----2--2--------2---------------------------------0--------|
D|---2---2---------5---------2h5--------------2p0------0------0h2------------|
A|---0---0----------------------------3---3---------3-----3------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-----------------------------------3----3----X--------2----2------X--------|
B|-----------------------------------3----3----X--------3----3------X--------|
G|-----------------0----0--X---------2----2----X--------2----2------X--------|
D|-----------------0----0--X---------0----0----X--------0----0------X--------|
A|-----------0h2-------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---3---3-------------------------------------------------------------------|
Verse 1:
A C G Dsus4 D
Sitting still, you’ve got time to kill around here
A C
And if you’d like to see what it’s like to be
G Dsus4 D
from here
A C
Take a look now, but not too much
G D
You don’t want to go and push your luck
A C G Dsus4 D
Sitting still, you’ve got time to kill around here,
round here
1x Riff
Verse 2:
A C
Don’t step on the cracks, you’d better watch
G Dsus4 D
your back around here
A C
Do something wrong and it’s easy to
G Dsus4 D
disappear
A C
Always got a pair of eyes on you
G D
Keeping track of your every move
A C
Don’t step on the cracks, you’d better watch
G Dsus4 D
your back around here
round here
Riff
round here
Riff
Chorus:
F C G
You keep turning away
F C G A G
You keep turning away I know
F C G
You keep turning away
F C G A G E E
You keep turning away I know
Verse 3:
A C
It may not be much, but it’s all that we’ve got
G Dsus4 D
around here
A C
We know what matters the most and we hold
G Dsus4 D
it close and dear
A C
It’s not so easy to get up and go
G D
After taking a house and making a home
A C
It may not be much, but it’s all that we’ve got
G Dsus4 D
around here
round here
Solo
A C G D X4
Chorus:
F C G
You keep turning away
F C G A G
You keep turning away I know
F C G
You keep turning away
F C G A G E E
You keep turning away I know
Verse 4:
A C
It’s always been this hard, you never get too
G Dsus4 D
far around here
A C G Dsus4 D
But we pull up our boots and we ain’t got time for tears
A C
Every morning is just another day
G D
Breaking our backs for some low-ball pay
A C G Dsus4 D
It’s always been this hard, you never get too far around here
round here
Riff
round here
Riff
Chorus:
F C G
You keep turning away
F C G A G
You keep turning away I know
F C G
You keep turning away
F C G A G
You keep turning away I know
F C G
You keep turning away oooh
F C G A G
You keep turning away I know
F C G
You keep turning away oooh
F C G A G E E
You keep turning away I know
Outro:
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B|-----------------------------1---------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------2---------------------------------------------|
D|----2---0--------------------2---------------------------------------------|
A|------------3----2-----------0---------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Song History
Published: March 29, 2026
Last Updated: March 29, 2026