Love's Refugees Chords
Love's Refugees by Chris Hillman is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, Bb, Dm and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
F Bb Dm C F
F C F
There's a silence growing before the comin' storm
C F
We're all around us alive or tattered and torn
Bb
Stripped of spirit and stripped of pride
Dm C F
Led to believe in the golden light
C F
A broken home is like a smokin' gun
C F
When the battles over the unfortunate ones
Bb
Pick up the pieces with no guarantees
Dm C F
That they won't be love's refugees
Bb F
Blame it on the father, blame it on the mother
C F
They just don't know how to talk to each other
F Bb
Like a river rollin' to the open sea
F C Dm Bb
Will all the children ever come to believe
F C F
Or are the children love's refugees
SOLO
C F
On the ship of fools there's a golden ring
C F
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king
Bb
Like Jezebel and old Ahab
Dm C F
The more you want the less you have
Bb F
Blame it on the father, blame it on the mother
C F
They just don't know how to talk to each other
Bb
Like a river rollin' to the open sea
F C Dm Bb
Will all the children ever come to believe
F C F
Or are the children love's refugees
F Bb
Like a river rollin' to the open sea
F C Dm Bb
Will all the children ever be set free
F C F
Or are the children love's refugees