KEEP IT CLOSE
As recorded by Bones Owens
(From the 2021 Album BONES OWENS)


Capo 2nd fret.
If you don't want to use a capo transpose +2 steps.


Keep alternating between Em11 and E all the time in the Verses.
I have notated it only in the "Intro".

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[Intro]
      
      


[Verse 1]
             
My daddy told 

             
me when I was 

      
a boy
             
“This world wi

              
ll try to rob 

           
you of your jo

y
            
There’s a thie

              
f on every cor

          
ner of the str

eet
            
Trying to take

              
 from you the 

             
love that make

      
s you sweet”


[Chorus]
         
You gotta keep

 it close
         
You gotta keep

 it close
         
You gotta keep

 it close to y

our heart
         
You gotta keep

 it close
         
You gotta keep

 it close
         
You gotta keep

 it close to y

our heart

Or you’re gonn

a go blind


[Interlude]
      
      


[Verse 2]
            
I saw a man wi

              
thout a leg wh

        
o held a sign
             
It said, “Wher

             
e are you gonn

             
a go after you

      
 die?”
             
And I thought 

              
to myself, “Ma

          
n, that is str

ange”
            
I need to talk

              
 to the conduc

             
tor ‘bout this

 
 train


[Chorus]
         
You gotta keep

 it close
         
You gotta keep

 it close
         
You gotta keep

 it close to y

our heart
         
You gotta keep

 it close
         
You gotta keep

 it close
         
You gotta keep

 it closе to y

our heart

Or you’re gonn

a blind


[Guitar Solo]
      
      
      
     


[Out-Chorus]
         
You gotta keep

 it close
         
You gotta keep

 it close
         
You gotta keep

 it close to y

our heart
         
You gotta keep

 it close
         
You gotta keep

 it close
         
You gotta keep

 it closе to y

our heart
             
Or you’re gonn

  
a blind