Keep It Dark chords

Keep It Dark

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KEEP IT DARK by Genesis
from the 1981 album 'Abacab' 
Written by Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, and Phil Collins
(C) 1981 by Virgin Records
Transcribed by Tha Funkinator (dwarfmuncher(at)gmail.com)

This ostinato is repeated under almost the entire song, except from 
"A world full of people..." to "Oh, keep it dark!"


              |:       Ostinato        :|
e-------------|-------------------------|
B-------------|-------------------------|
G-0---2---4---|o5-----4-5---0---2---4--o|
D-------------|o-----------------------o|
A-----0---2---|-3-----2-3-------0---2---|
E-3-----------|-------------3-----------|
  4 . 5 . 6 . | 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 .


Intro:
|:C    :|


Verse:
F              E        Am          G        C
Found that man reported missing, he wandered in his home

         F               E      Am    G         C        
It don't seem too bad if you consider just what he's been through


Am              Em     Am              Em
Seems he met up with a gang of thieves

Am              Em    Am           Em
Who mistook him for a man of means

     Dm                  Em       F 
They locked him up, then found he had no money

G#              C
So they let him go again

F                E        Am    G       C
Now he's back at home and happy just to see the kids

Pre-Chorus
  Cmaj7                 Fmaj7        Cmaj7 
I wish, that I could really tell you    

 Em7                         Fmaj7 
All the things that happened to me

Cmaj7
      Or all that I have seen

  Fmaj7         Em7           Fmaj7          Cmaj7
A world full of people, their hearts full of joy

Fmaj7     Em7        Fmaj7      Cmaj7
Cities of light with no fear of war

    Fmaj7        Em7            Fmaj7   Cmaj7
And thousands of creatures with happier lives

    Fmaj7       Em7         Fmaj7          Em7     C
And dreams of a future with meaning and no need to hide

(n.c.)
       Oh, keep it dark
  
|:C    :|   

   F                E       Am   G      C
It seems strange to have to lie about a world so bright

    F              E      Am     G        C
And tell instead a made-up story from the world of night

  Cmaj7                 Fmaj7        Cmaj7 
I wish, that I could really tell you    

 Em7                         Fmaj7 
All the things that happened to me

Cmaj7
      Or all that I have seen

  Fmaj7         Em7           Fmaj7          Cmaj7
A world full of people, their hearts full of joy

Fmaj7     Em7        Fmaj7      Cmaj7
Cities of light with no fear of war

    Fmaj7        Em7            Fmaj7   Cmaj7
And thousands of creatures with happier lives

    Fmaj7       Em7         Fmaj7          Em7     Fmaj7
And dreams of a future with meaning and no need to lie

   Em7     Fmaj7
No need to hate

  Em7      C
No need to hide

(n.c.)
       Oh, keep it dark

|:C    :| to fade

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