You Keep Me Hangin' On: Vanilla Fudge.
#6 in 1968.

[Intro]
    (x2)

[Chorus]
            
Set me free wh

             
y don't you ba

            
be? Get out my

           
 life, why don

't you babe?
            
Cause you don'

             
t really love 

             
me, you just k

             
eep me hangin'

 
 on.
            
Now you don't 

             
really need me

            
, you just kee

             
p me hangin' o

n.

[Verse 1]
             
Why do ya keep

              
 a'comin' arou

             
nd, playin' wi

      
th my heart?
             
Why doncha get

              
 out of my lif

             
e, and let me 

             
make a new sta

 
rt?
             
Let me get ove

            
r you, the way

              
 you've gotten

      
 over me, yeah

.

[Chorus]
            
Set me free wh

             
y don't you ba

            
be? Get out my

           
 life, why don

't you babe?
            
Cause you don'

             
t really love 

             
me, you just k

             
eep me hangin'

 
 on.
            
Now you don't 

             
really need me

            
, you just kee

             
p me hangin' o

n.

[Verse 2]
             
You say althou

              
gh we broke up

             
, you still ju

            
st wanna be fr

iends.
             
But how can we

              
 still be frie

          
nds, when seei

ng you only
          
breaks my hear

t again?
    
And there ain'

t nothing I ca

n do about it.

..

[Chorus]
            
Set me free wh

             
y don't you ba

            
be? Get out my

           
 life, why don

't you babe?
            
Cause you don'

             
t really love 

             
me, you just k

             
eep me hangin'

 
 on.
            
Now you don't 

             
really need me

            
, you just kee

             
p me hangin' o

n.

[Verse 3]
             
You claim you 

              
still care for

             
 me but your h

              
eart and soul 

           
need to be fre

e.
             
And now that y

              
ou've got your

              
 freedom, you 

             
want to still 

             
hold on to me.
             
You don't want

              
 me or yoursel

            
f, so let me f

             
ind somebody e


lse, hey, hey.

            
Why doncha be 

             
a man about it

           
, and set me f

ree?
            
Now, you don't

             
 care a thing 

            
about me, you'

              
re just usin' 


me.
           
Go on, get out

            
 of my life an

              
d let me sleep

    
 at night.

[Outro]
            
You don't real

             
ly love me, yo

            
u just keep me

         
 hangin' on..(

x2) (fade)


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