The Supremes - You Keep Me Hanging On

      Song: You keep me hangin' on
Artist: The Supremes
Composers: Holland, Dozier & Holland

Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' at ultimateGuitar.com)
31st Jan 2015

TUNING:
The original track is in the key of Ab, so to play
along tune all strings down a half -step to
D#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#

You can choose not to detune, but, in standard
tuning, you will be playing a semi-tone higher, and
not be able to play along with the original record.

N.B.
Please ignore any pop-up chord boxes the website
might automatically suggest, instead please use the
typed shapes indicated below in the chord legend:

A     = xx7655   C7sus4 = x33311    G    = 320033
G6    = xx5455   F      = 133211    E7/B = x22130
G6/D  = xx0055   C      = x32010    E    = 022100
Fmaj7 = xx3555   Em/B   = x22000

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[Intro]
  A            G6          G6/D          Fmaj7
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |

[Chorus]
A                      G6
     Set me free, why don't you, baby?
G6/D                      Fmaj7
     Get out my life, why don't you,baby?
A                            G6
    'Cause you don't really love me,
         G6/D            Fmaj7
You just keep me hanging on,
A                      G6
     You don't really need me,
        G6/D            Fmaj7
But you keep me hanging on!

[Verse 1]
C7sus4
        Why do you keep a-coming around,
 F                    C
Playing a - with my heart?
C7sus4
        Why don't you get out of my life,
F                          C
   And let me make a new start?
Em/B  G
          Let me get over you,
    E7/B                   E
The way you've gotten over me!

[Chorus]
      A                     G6
Hey,   ...set me free, why don't you, baby?
G6/D                 Fmaj7
      Let me be, why don't you, baby?
               A                             G6
(Woo -oo, hoo, oo!) 'Cause you don't really love me,
         G6/D           Fmaj7
You just keep me hanging on,
                A                           G6
(Woo - oo, hoo, oo!)  Now you don't really want me,
         G6/D           Fmaj7
You just keep me hanging on!

[Verse 2]
C7sus4
        You say, although we broke up,
      F                      C
You still want to be just friends,
C7sus4
        But how can we still be friends,
       F                         A
When seeing you only breaks my heart again?
A
    And there ain't nothing I can do about it!

[Chorus]
                    A
Woh - oo, woh -oo, love,
                   G6
(Set me free, why don't you, baby?)
                   G6/D
Woh - oo, woh -oo, love,
                       Fmaj7
(Get out my life!) Why don't you, baby?
A                       G6
     Set me free,  why don't you, baby?
G6/D                      Fmaj7
     Get out my life, why don't you, baby?

[Verse 3]
C7sus4
        You claim you still care for me,
           F                          C
But your heart and soul needs to be free,
C7sus4
        And now that you've got your freedom,
     F                       C
You want to still hold on to me,
Em/B  G
         You don't want me for yourself,
   E7/B                  E
So let me find somebody else...hey-hey!

[Verse 4]
A                      G6
    Why don't you be a man about it,
G6/D             Fmaj7
      And set me free?
      A                    G6
Now   ...you don't care a thing about me,
G6/D                    Fmaj7
      You're just using me,
   A                   G6
Go on, ...get out, get out of my life,
G6/D                      Fmaj7
      And let me sleep at night,
        A                      G6
Please,  ...'cause you don't really love me,
         G6/D           Fmaj7
You just keep me hanging on,
                A                       G6
(Woo - oo, hoo, oo!)  You don't really need me,
         G6/D
You just keep me hanging...

[Suggestion for coda -gradually slowing down]
  Fmaj7         G6    A
...on!
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