Billy Joel - Keeping the Faith

Originally in D, I play in A capo 2.

A

If it Aseems like I’ve been lost in let’s remember

If you think I’m feeling older and missing my younger days

Oh, then you Dshould have known me much better

Cause my past is something that never

Got in my Away oh no

Still I Awould not be here now if I never had the hunger

And I’m not ashamed to say the wild boys were my friends

Cause I Dnever felt the desire till their music set me on fire

We wore Amatador boots

Only Flagg Brothers had them with the Cuban heel

Iridescent socks with the same color shirt

And a tight pair of chinos

I Dput on my shark skin jacket

You know the kind with the velvet collar

And ditty-bop Ashades

I took a fresh pack of Luckies and a mint called Sen-Sen

My old man’s Trojans and his Old Spice after shave

Combed my Dhair in a pompadour

Like the rest of the Romeos wore

Bridge

You can Eget just so Dmuch from a Agood thing

You can Elinger too Dlong in your Adreams

Say Egoodbye to the Doldies but Agoodies

Cause the Bm7good old days weren’t always good

And E7tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems

ALearned stickball as a formal education

Lost a lot of fights but it taught me how to lose O.K.

I Dheard about sex but not enough

I found you could dance and still look tough anyAway

I found out a man ain’t just being macho

Ate an awful lot of late night drive-in food drank a lot of take-home pay

I Dthought I was the Duke of Earl

When I made it with a red-haired girl

Bridge

You can Eget just so Dmuch from a Agood thing

You can Elinger too Dlong in your Adreams

Say Egoodbye to the Doldies but Agoodies

Cause the Bm7good old days weren’t always good

Hang this line if not doing a solo

And E7tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems

Instrumental, listed here with lyrics but I usually skip if

a solo is not appropriate.

You can Eget just so Dmuch from a Agood thing

You can Elinger too Dlong in your Adreams

Say Egoodbye to the Doldies but Agoodies

Cause the Bm7good old days weren’t always good

And E7tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems

Now I Atold you my reasons for the whole revival

Now I’m going outside to have an

Ice cold beer in the shade

I’m going to Dlisten to my 45’s

Ain’t it wonderful to be alive

When the rock ‘n’ roll

Fade on the I