World Keeps Going Around Chords
by Bill Withers
World Keeps Going Around by Bill Withers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, D, A, Bm and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
e|-----------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------|
G|----------0-----------0----------0----------0--|
D|-------2-----------2----------2----------2-----|
A|----2----------2------------2---------2--------|
E|--0---------0------------0---------0-----------|
verse 1
Em D Em
Looking at the pictures of the places that he’s been
A Em
Old man told me what he found
D Em
Said it don’t make no difference whether you’re out or whether you’re in
Em
You know the world keeps going around and around
Break
Bm Am
D Em A Em
Going around and around
Verses 2
Em D Em
Said he looked at the places, talk to the faces that he seen
A Em
Then he turned the pictures upside down
D Em
Said it don’t make no difference how many places that you’ve been
Em
Said the world keeps going around and around
Break
Bm Am
D Em A Em
Going around and around
Verses 3
Em D Em
Then he put up the pictures shook his head and with a grin
A Em
He talked about his ups and downs
D Em
Said it don’t make no difference how many fixes you’ve been
Em
You know the world keeps going around and around
Break
Bm Am
D Em A Em
Going around and around
verse 4
Em D Em
Betty Joe Johnson, don’t you pull no Daisy Mae on me
D Em
Daisy Mae she did me dirty,
D Em
so I had to leave her for Anna Lee
D Em
Anna Lee she had big street feet,
D Em
she spends her nights out on the road
D Em
So I started seeing Sally Jackson,
D Em
I had to let old Anna Lee go
D Em
Sally Jackson was a player,
D Em
had another man along with me
D Em
So I just took me one step backwards,
D Em
checked up on old Anna Lee
D Em
Anna Lee still had them street feet
D Em
Like to dance all night and sleep all day
D Em
So I just took one more step backwards,
D Em
checked up on old Daisy Mae
D Em
Daisy Mae is still doing dirty,
D Em
so I tell you what I had to do
D Em
I had to go just one step further, Betty Joe Johnson
D Em
And that’s how I know you
Verse 5
Em D Em
Said he looked at the places, talk to the faces that he seen
D Em
Then he turned the pictures upside down
D Em
Said it don’t make no difference how many places that you’ve been
Em
Said the world keeps going around and around
Break
Bm Am
Em
Going around and around
Outro
e|-----------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------|
G|----------0-----------0----------0----------0--|
D|-------2-----------2----------2----------2-----|
A|----2----------2------------2---------2--------|
E|--0---------0------------0---------0-----------|