Arcade Fire - Keep the car running
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Ukuleles come in a variation of tuning, the most common of which is GCEA, G being the third highest of
the four. In order to play "Keep the Car Running", the C string must be tuned to a B, which is one
fret/half tone down. This can be achieved by tuning the fifth fret on the C string to the open
E string.
In this tuning, the chords are as follows:
D5: 2350 (ADAA)
Gadd9: 0335 (GDGD);
alternatively, you can play this chord as Gadd9/B: 0035 (GBGD)
Asus4: 2300 (ADEA)
D5/C#: 2250 (AC#AA)
D5/B: 2050 (GBEA)
G: 0332 (GDGB)
If, for one reason or another, you would like to play the song in standard (GCEA) tuning, here are the
chords:
D5: 2250 (ADAA)
Gadd9: 0235 (GDGD);
alternatively, you can play this chord as Gadd9/B: 0035 (GBGD)
Asus4: 2200 (ADEA)
D5/C#: 2150 (AC#AA)
D5/B: 2(-1)50 (GBEA)
unless you possess some ungodly fretboard which allows you go to lower than the open string, this chord
is impossible :) Maybe just play it as 2x50, muting the C string.
G: 0232 (GDGB)
Intro is a strum/picking variation of D5
D5Every night my dream's the same
Same old city with a different name
Gadd9Men are coming to take me away
D5Don't know why but I know I can't stay
Verse:
D5There's a weight that's pressing down
Late at night I can hear the sound
Gadd9Even the noise you make when you sleep
D5Can't swim across the river so deep
Chorus:
Asus4They know my name 'cause I Dtold it to them
But they Bdon't know where and D5they don't know when
It's coming, when it's coming D5
Verse:
D5There's a fear I get so deep
Knew the sentence before I could speak
Gadd9Ohh Ohh Ohh Ohhh D5
Chorus:
Asus4They know my name 'cause I Dtold it to them
But they Bdon't know where and D5they don't know when
It's Gadd9coming, or wheD5re but it's comGadd9ing
D5 (Goes into Bridge/Intro part)
Keep the car running
Bridge/Intro (repeat as necessary): (D5)
Verse
D5If some night I don't come home
Please don't think I've left you alone
The Gadd9same place animals go when they die
D5Can't climb across a mountain so high
The Gadd9same city where I go when I sleep
D5Can't swim across a river so deep
Chorus and Outro:
Asus4They know my name 'cause I Dtold it to them
But they Bdon't know where and D5they don't know when
It's Gadd9coming, oh wheD5n is it coming Gadd9
Keep the car D5running
Keep the car D5running Gadd9
Keep the car D5running Gadd9
Keep the car D5running