Keep Me Around Chords

KeyC#m CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays460

Keep Me Around by Turin Brakes is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C#m. It uses the chords C#m, G#, A, E and F#. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C#m
Text
16
Speed
  			
Intro: C#m G# A E x2 

C#m      G# 
Tu tu tu tu tu 
A        E 
Tu tu tu tu tu tu tu  
x2 

C#m  G#         A          E 
You killed the crowd in my head 
C#m      G#         
With the naysayers dead 
  A           E 
I guess I can finally 
C#m G#    A        E 
Let go of all my uncertainty 
C#m         G#    A            E   
All great divides meet their demise 

C#m      G# 
Tu tu tu tu tu 
A        E 
Tu tu tu tu tu tu tu  

C#m  G#        A        E 
Meet me in the honey of ourselves 
      C#m      G#      A          E 
We’re one in a billion bullets of love 
C#m   G#   A            E 
We’ll ride helpless and happy 
   C#m          G#         A         E 
If heaven’s the edge, then what lies above? 

C#m  G# A          E 
If I am all you’ve found 
   C#m   G#     A       F# 
An extra arm to wrestle down 
     A        E   C#m 
Will you keep me around? 

C#m      G# 
Tu tu tu tu tu 
A        E 
Tu tu tu tu tu tu tu  
x2 

C#m  G#    A       E 
This world so inexplicable 
C#m      G#        A           E 
Parallel universe ticks out of time 
C#m   G#      A             E 
Guess if the gods have gone crazy 
     C#m          G#    A         E 
Then we found the place for us to dive 

C#m  G# A          E 
If I am all you’ve found 
   C#m   G#     A       F# 
An extra arm to wrestle down 
     A        E   C#m 
Will you keep me around? 

C#m      G# 
Tu tu tu tu tu 
A        E 
Tu tu tu tu tu tu tu  
x3 

C#m  G#      A      E 
Oh   Keep me around       x4 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

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

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante