You Keep Me Hanging On:The Supremes.
#1 in 1966.
INTRO:
[G#] [D#m] [F#] [E]
CHORUS:
[G#] [F#] [D#m] [E]
Set me free, why don't you babe..get out of my life, why don't you babe?
[G#] [F#] [D#m] [E]
Cause you don't really love me..you just keep me hanging on.
[G#] [F#] [D#m] [E]
You don't really need me..but you keep me hanging on.
#1.
[A/B] [E/B] [B]
Why do you keep coming around, playing with my heart?
[A/B] [E/B] [B] [D#m]
Why doncha get out of my life and let me make a new start?
[F#] [D#7]
Let me get over you, the way you've gotten over me. Hey!
CHORUS:
[G#] [F#] [D#m] [E]
Set me free, why don't you babe..get out of my life, why don't you babe?
[G#] [F#] [D#m] [E]
Cause you don't really love me..you just keep me hanging on.
[G#] [F#] [D#m] [E]
You don't really need me..but you keep me hanging on.
#2.
[A/B] [E/B] [B]
You say although we broke up, you still want to be just friends.
[A/B] [E/B]
But how can we still be friends, when seein' you only breaks
[G#]
my heart again? (Spoken: )And there ain't nothing I can do about it.
CHORUS:
[G#] [F#]
Whoa-oh-oh, set me free..why don't you babe?
[D#m] [E]
Whoa-oh-oh, get out of my life..why don't you babe?
[G#] [F#]
Whoa-oh-oh, set me free..why don't you babe?
[D#m] [E]
Get out of my life, why don't you babe?
#3.
[A/B] [E/B] [B]
You claim you still care for me but your heart and soul need to be free.
[A/B] [E/B] [B] [D#m]
And now that you've got your freedom, you want to still hold on to me.
[F#] [D#7]
You don't want me for yourself, so let me find somebody else, hey hey.
OUTRO:
[G#] [F#] [D#m] [E]
Why don't you be a man about it..and set me free?
[G#] [F#] [D#m] [E]
Now, you don't care a thing about me..you're just using me.
[G#] [F#] [D#m] [E]
Go on, get out, get out of my life..and let me sleep at night.
[G#] [F#] [D#m] [E]
You don't really love me..you just keep me hanging on..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.