Keep The Ball Rollin Chords

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Keep The Ball Rollin by Jay And The Techniques is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Db. It uses the chords Db, B, A, Abm, Ab, Dbm, Eb, Bb, Ebm, F#, D, Em, Gm7, Fm, Gm, E, F#m and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Db
Text
16
Speed
  			
Intro: Db B A Abm  Db B A Ab    

 
Db                     Dbm           Db  
Keep the ball rollin'  keep the ball rollin'  girl, the   
            Ab  
name of the game is love   
        Eb        Ab                   Bb             Ebm  
On your mark, get set, let the kissin' start and just keep   
         Db       F#                  Db   A D  
the ball rollin', baby, right into my heart   

#1   
D                                              Em  
How can you ask me to try and get by with just one little kiss?  
 A  
(one little kiss?)  
                Em    A                      D      D  
The kissin' you do, I need a second helpin', too   (need a second   
         Bb  
helpin', need a second helping, too )  
     Eb                       Bb                            Ab  
When you light the fire in my heart and every part of me is burning   

with you   
       Db                   F#              Gm7  
You've got to put your lips closer to mine (closer to mine)    
                           Ab       Ab  
Girl, you got to follow it through (you got to follow it through )  
Ab                             Ab  
You got to follow it through  (you got to follow it through )  

  
Db                     Dbm           Db  
Keep the ball rollin'  keep the ball rollin'  girl, the   
            Ab  
name of the game is love   
        Eb        Ab                   Bb             Ebm  
On your mark, get set, let the kissin' start and just keep   
         Db       F#                  Db   A D  
the ball rollin', baby, right into my heart   

#2   
D                                               Em  
Half of a loaf isn't better than none, when I'm starvin' for you    
          A  
(when I'm starvin' for you )  
Em                      A                      D                 Bb  
Don't hold me tight, if every night we stop at two  (don't stop  keep   

the ball rollin' )  
   Eb                               Db  
If you want me there when you call, then girl, it's all or nothing    
Ab  
next time you do   
    Db                   F#  
You got to put your lips closer to mine (closer to mine)    
Gm7              Eb        Ab        Ab  
girl, you got to follow it through  (you got to follow it through)    
Ab                             Ab  
you got to follow it through  (you got to follow it through )  

  
Db                     Dbm           Db  
Keep the ball rollin'  keep the ball rollin'  girl, the   
            Ab  
name of the game is love   
        Eb        Ab                   Bb             Ebm  
On your mark, get set, let the kissin' start and just keep   
         Fm       F#                  Db   F# Db A  
the ball rollin', baby, right into my heart   

INTERLUDE: D Gm D  

OUTRO:  

D                            B             D          
Yeah  keep the ball rollin'  keep the ball rollin'  girl, the name of   
    A         
the game is love   
        E         A            B                      Em            F#m  
On your mark, get set, let the kissin' start and just keep the ball rollin',  
G                   D     G D  Bb  
baby, right into my heart    

Ebm B Ebm  B Ebm Abm  B Ebm Db  Abm Eb Db B   
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante