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 D/F# A5 |
Lose your blues, everybody cut, everybody cut.
| N.C | N.C D/F# A5 |
Everybody cut, everybody cut.
| N.C | A5 N.C | N.C | A riff | A riff |
Everybody cut, everybody cut (everybody) everybody cut footloose.

Footloose chords, progressions, and TAB

Released in 1984 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 that 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, let’s go through all of Footloose Chords and riffs so you can play this classic with a band. This will be best done using TAB, and we will have to modify it so you can do this as the only guitarist in the band.

Below you find Footloose intro TAB, I have changed this slightly so it becomes easier to learn and also for the band to hear where you are rhythmically.

The exact part is crazier and overlaps. Play along to the original and it’ll all make sense.

This intro comes back as an instrumental section, although we only play the hammer-on lick then.

The verse is built around an A chord, a long rest, and a D/F# chord, like this:

The bridge section starts on the IV chord and goes back to some A riff work. The first time around we play this A for four bars, the second time, it’s only for two.

To finish the bridge off, we climb from D – B7/D# – E – F#m11 – G6 – G# – N.C. As we hit that G# and stop, we’re in the chorus, here’s TAB for the bridge.

The chorus is more A and D riffing. On the original recording, there are several layered guitars, so the challenge is to find one part that works, here’s an idea:

The rest of Footloose is a combination of what we’ve just been through. Use the Chords and lyrics above for guidance, play along to the original recording, and don’t forget to tune sharp!

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