Keep Me Hanging On chords by Kim Wilde

• Capo on 3rd

Intro:
| Em | Em |
| Em | D  | Bm | C |
| Em | D  | Bm | C |
        (...keep me hanging on...)



Chorus:
Em                D
Set me free, why don’t you babe?
Bm                    C
Get out my life, why don’t you babe?
Em                       D
’Cause you don’t really love me
         Bm              C
You just keep me hanging on

Rhythmic fill: | Em | D | Bm | C |

Em                D
Set me free, why don’t you babe?
Bm                    C
Get out my life, why don’t you babe?
Em                       D
’Cause you don’t really need me
        Bm              C
But you keep me hanging on

Verse:
G
Why do you keep a-comin’ around
C                G
Playing with my heart?
G
Why don’t you get out of my life
     C                        G
And let me make a brand new start?
D
Let me get over you
    B7
The way you’ve gotten over me, yeah

Chorus:
Em                D
Set me free, why don’t you babe?
Bm                    C
Get out my life, why don’t you babe?
Em                       D
’Cause you don’t really love me
         Bm              C
You just keep me hanging on
Em                   D
No you don’t really need me
         Bm         C
You just keep me... hanging on

Verse:
G
You say although we broke up
C                      G
We still just wanna be friends
G
But how can we still be friends when
C                         Em          D   C   A
Seeing you only breaks my heart agaaaaaaaaaaain...
                                        (and there ain’t nothing I can do about it...)
Bridge:
D       Em         D
Wow-wow-wow...
D       Bm         C
Wow-wow-wow-wow...
C       Em         D
Wow-wow-wow-wow...
D       Bm         C
Wow-wow-wow...        yeah....

Em            D
Get out, get out of my life
Bm                  C
And let me sleep at night
Em                       D
’Cause you don’t really love me
         Bm                   C
You just keep me... (hanging) hanging on

Verse:
G
You say you still care for me
         C                          G
But your heart and soul needs to be free
G
And now that you’ve got your freedom
    C                      G
You wanna still hold on to me
D
You don’t want me for yourself
   B7
So let me find somebody else

Chorus:
Em                D
Set me free, why don’t you babe?
Bm                    C
Get out my life, why don’t you babe?
Em                       D
’Cause you don’t really love me
         Bm              C
You just keep me hanging on

Em                 D
Why don’t you be a man about it
Bm       C
Set me free
Em                    D
Now you don’t care a thing about me
Bm                 C
You’re just using me (hey, abusing me)

Em            D
Get out, get out of my life
Bm                  C
And let me sleep at night
Em                       D
’Cause you don’t really love me
         Bm         C
You just keep me... hanging on

Outro: repeat
 | Em | D | Bm | C |
to fade