Rockin In The Free World Live At Pinkpop 92 Chords

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Rockin In The Free World Live At Pinkpop 92 by Pearl Jam is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em/D/C, Em, D, C and E5. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			The song starts with a random jam of songs: 
First: suggestions by Fugazi 
Second: Pulled up by Talking Heads 
Third: Rain by the Beatles 

N.B. Most of the Live versions they did are practically the same except for the solo's of course.  
(e.g. Live in Pistoia, Italy: Immagine in Cornice 2006) 

Intro:  
there is some kind of aperggio going on while Em/D/C is played muted: 


Em                  D     C         Em 
E -----------------|------------------| 
B -----------------|--3---------------| 
G -----------------|----2----0--------| 
D -----------------|0----------2------| 
A -----------------|------3-----3p2-2-| 
E -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|----------------0-|

There are colors on the street...red, white, and blue 
People shufflin' their feet, people sleepin' in their shoes 
  
There's a warnin' sign in the road ahead 
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead 
Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them 
So I try to forgive 'em, any way I can, yeah... 


They start strumming these chords over the next Verse:  


Em (or E5)        D     C         Em 
E -0--0--0--0---|-0----------------| 
B -0--0--0--0---|-3-----1----------| 
G -x--x--x--x---|-2-----0----------| 
D -2--2--2--2---|-0-----2----------| 
A -2--2--2--2---|-------3----------| 
E -0--0--0--0---|------------------| 

I see a girl in the night with a baby in her hands 
Under an old street light, oh, near a garbage can 
Now she put her kid away, she's gone to get a hit 
She hates her life, and what she's done with it 
That's one more kid, that'll never go to school 
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool 


After this, there is obvioulsy the Chorus:

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante