Playing For Keeps Chords

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Playing For Keeps by Elvis Presley is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Eb, Ebm, G, Am7, F, Dm7 and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Playing For Keeps:Elvis Presley. 
Flip side of 'Too Much' on RCA 
Records in 1957. 

Intro: C Eb Ebm C 

#1. 
C           G       Am7 C 
I have been playing for keeps, this time  
     F 
it's real. 
               Dm7 C       D           G    
And I want you to  know, exactly how I feel. 

#2. 
G                       C  Am7  C        G 
I have been playing for ke-eps, for sure this  
F 
time. 
            Dm7 C      G       F           C 
And I won't be  happy, until I know you're mine. 

Bridge: 
C     Dm7  C    F                          C 
There have been others, that could love me true. 
           Dm7 D                 Dm7      G 
But no one el--se, can thrill me like you do. 

#3. 
G                       C          G        F 
I have been playing for keeps, oh, love me, too. 
                  C             G 
Oh, don't make me sorry, that I fell in love  
     C   
with you. 

OUTRO: 
    F         C 
(In love with you.) 



A fifties smash from Kraziekhat. 
    	

Chord diagrams

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