Biografía:
Curtis Mayfield, cantante, compositor y guitarrista de soul y funk nacido en Chicago en 1942.
El legado de composiciones, grabaciones e interpretaciones de Mayfield es enorme. Como voz principal de la formación The Impressions, hizo algunas de las más importantes grabaciones del soul vocal de los 60.
Emprendió su carrera en solitario en la década de los 70, inspirado en el funk y añadiendo rasgos urbanos a la música soul, siendo uno de los máximos exponentes de estilos como el blaxploitation
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KEEP ON KEEPING ON
CURTIS MAYFIELD
Ab Fm Db Bbm
Everybody gather round and listen to my song
Ab
I've only got one
Ab Cm
We who are young should now take a stand
Fm Eb
Don't run from the burdens of women and men
Gb Db
Continue to give continue to live
Bbm Eb
For what you know is right
Ab Cm
Most of your life can be out of sight
Fm Eb
Withdraw from the darkness and look to the light
Gb Db
Where everyone's free 'least that's the way it's
Bbm Eb
Supposed to be
Db Ab Abmaj7
And we just keep on keeping on
Db Ab
We just keep on keeping on
Gb Db
Many think that we have blown it
Bbm7
But they too will soon admit
Bbm7 Cm7 Eb
That there's still a lot of love among us
Bbm7 Cm7 Eb13
And there's still a lot of faith and warmth and trust
Db Ab
When we keep on keeping on
Ab Cm
Before we dismiss one thing I insist
Fm Eb
When you have your young remember this song
Gb
And our world surrounding its leaps and and bounds
Db Bbm Eb
Ups and downs is reality
Ab Cm
Teach them to be strong and when they are grown
Fm Eb
They can proudly imply that we were an alright guy
Gb Db
For all the wrong now is right and this nations people united
Bbm Eb
As one
Db Ab Abmaj7
And we just keep on keeping on
Db Ab
We just keep on keeping on
Gb Db
Many think that we have blown it
Bbm7
But they too will soon admit
Bbm7 Cm7 Eb
That there's still a lot of love among us
Bbm7 Cm7 Eb13
And there's still a lot of faith and warmth and trust
Db Ab
When we keep on keeping on
Ab
We're gonna move on up y'all
Keep on keeping on
etc vocal ad lib to fade
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