From the Album "Refugees of the Heart", released 1990 on Virgin Records.
Words and Music by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings.
Key of D-major. Time signature 4/4.
A D/A Am7 D/A A D/A G/A
All over the night, the beat goes on
D/A A D/A G/A D/A A D/A G/A D/A
Can you hear it? Can you feel?
A D/A G/A D/A A D/A G/A
Through the years music keeps running
D/A A D/A G/A D/A A D/A A
The beat keeps running on, on and on
C A D/A A D/A A
And I'll always be feeling it, and I won't slow down
C/G G A D/A A
Just as long as those wheels go round
E7sus4 F A
I'll be riding that fast train to Memphis
F D A
On that sweet R & B
F D A F D A
Till that green grass way down home grows up o - ver me
Somewhere in this world a child is born
He can hear, he can feel it
Just like me, he'll keep it running
He'll keep it running on, on and on
(refrain - substitute 'he')