How Can I Keep From Singing chords by Pete Seeger

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: C#

Verse 1:
   C                F
My life flows on in endless song
 C                       G
Above earth's lamentation
  C                                 F
I hear the real, tho' far-off hymn
     G7         G7/B  C
That hails a new   creation


Chorus:
      C              G       C
Thro' all the tumult and the strife
  C              G
I hear that music ringing
   C              F     C
It sounds an echo in my soul
          Am   G    C
How can I keep from singing?

Verse 2:
     C                   F
What though the tempest 'round me roars
  C                  G
I know the truth, it liveth
     C                    F
What though the darkness 'round me close
      G7              C
Songs in the night it giveth


Chorus:
   C                  G      C
No storm can shake my inmost calm
      C            G   C
While to that rock I'm clinging
      C                 F          C
Since love is Lord of heav'n and earth
          G         C
How can I keep from singing?


Verse 3:
     C                F
When tyrants tremble, sick with fear
    C                       G
And hear their death knells ringing
     C                     F
When friends rejoice, both far and near
          C    G7   C
How can I keep from singing?


Chorus:
   C               G        C
In prison cell and dungeon, vile
    C                    G
Our thoughts to them are winging
     C                    F
When friends by shame are undefiled
          Am   G   C
How can I keep from singing?