Footloose | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
| drums | x4
| bass | x4
||: A (riff) | A7 (riff) :|| x8
||: A7 riff :|| x6
Verse 1
| A N.C | N.C D/F# | A N.C | N.C D/F# |
Been working so hard, I’m punching my card.
| A N.C | N.C D/F# | A N.C | A (C) |
Eight hours, for what? Oh, tell me what I got.
Bridge 1
| D5 | D5 | D5 | D5 | A7 | A | A7 | A (lick) |
I gotten this feeling, that time’s just holding me down.
| D5 | D5 | B7/D# | B7/D# | E | F#m11 | G6 |
I’ll hit the ceiling, or else I’ll tear up this town.
Chorus 1
| G# N.C | A5 A7 A6 | A5 A7 A6 | D5 (D6) | A5 A7 A6 |
Tonight I gotta cut loose, footloose. Kick off your Sunday shoes.
| A5 A7 A6 | A5 A7 A6 | D5 (D6) | A5 A7 A6 |
Please, Louise, pull me up off my knees.
| A5 A7 A6 | A5 A7 A6 | D5 (D6) | A5 A7 A6 |
Jack, get back, c’mon, before we crack.
| A5 A7 A6 | A5 A7 A6 | D5 G5 |
Lose your blues, everybody cut footloose.
Instrumental 1
||: A riff :|| x3
| A riff (D/F#) |
Verse 2
| A5 N.C | N.C D/F# | A5 N.C | N.C D/F# |
You’re playing so cool, obeying every rule.
| A5 N.C | N.C D/F# | A5 N.C | A5 (C) |
Dig way down in your heart, you’re burning, yearning for some.
| D5 | D5 | D5 | D5 | A7 | A (lick) |
Somebody to tell you, that life ain’t passing you by.
| D5 | D5 | B7/D# | B7/D# | E | F#m11 | G6 |
I’m trying to tell you, it will if you don’t even try.
Chorus 2
| G# N.C | A5 A7 A6 | A5 A7 A6 | D5 (D6) | A5 A7 A6 |
You can fly if you’d only cut loose, footloose. Kick off your Sunday shoes.
| A5 A7 A6 | A5 A7 A6 | D5 (D6) | A5 A7 A6 |
Ooh-wee, Marie, shake it, shake it for me.
| A5 A7 A6 | A5 A7 A6 | D5 (D6) | A5 A7 A6 |
Whoa, Milo, c’mon, c’mon let’s go.
| A5 A7 A6 | A5 A7 A6 | D5 G5 |
Lose your blues, everybody cut footloose.
Breakdown
||: N.C | N.C :||
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) cut footloose (oh-oh-oh-oh)
| N.C | N.C | N.C | N.C (G) |
Cut footloose (oh-oh-oh-oh) cut footloose (aah)
| A5 N.C | N.C (G) |
(First) we got to turn you around.
| A5 N.C | N.C (G) |
(Second) you put your feet on the ground.
| A5 N.C | N.C |
(Third) now take a hold of your soul.
||: E :|| x7
(Aah)
| A5 N.C | A5 N.C D5 |
I’m turning it loose.
Outro
||: A5 A7 A6 | A5 A7 A6 | D5 (D6) | A5 A7 A6 :|| x7
Footloose, kick off your Sunday shoes
Please, Louise, pull me up off my knees
Jack, get back, c’mon, before we crack
Lose your blues, everybody cut footloose
Footloose (footloose), footloose, kick off your Sunday shoes.
Please, Louise, pull me up off my knees.
Jack, get back, c’mon, before we crack.
| A5 A7 A6 | A5 | N.C | N.C G D/F# |
Lose your blues, everybody cut, everybody cut.
| N.C | N.C G D/F# |
Everybody cut, everybody cut.
| N.C | G N.C | N.C | A riff | A riff |
Everybody cut, everybody cut (everybody) everybody cut footloose.
Footloose’s chords, progressions, and TAB
Released in 1984 as a single from the film with the same name, Footloose became Kenny Loggins‘ signature song.
A fun fact about this one is that the guitarist was Buzz Feiten, a man who later would go on to patent a tuning system for the guitar.
Speaking of tuning, you’ll want to be slightly sharp when playing along with the original recording. Use my online guitar tuner set to 448Hz to get on the same frequency as Kenny and Buzz!
Once in tune, members get TAB, taking them through all of Footloose chords, which is not easy as there are several guitars on the original, needing to be turned into just one guitar part so you can play it with a band.
Here’s a link to the complete (members-only) lesson: Footloose chord analysis and TAB.
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