Fairweather Friends Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays481

Fairweather Friends by The Get Up Kids is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, E, D and E/G#. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Intro: A E D  (x4) 

then 

A E/G# D A E D  (x2) 


Verse: 1 
A          E D 
Ride it out 
  A              E  D 
Into the setting sun 
A              E       D     A  E D 
Signalling the chapter has begun 


Verse: 2 
A        E D 
Any doubt 
A                E   D 
Falls beneath my boot 
A             E      D      A  E D 
As if I can't suffer all of you 


 
D 
  Fairweather friends will say 
A 
All good days just fade away 
D 
  To those fools I say 
A      D 
  Stay out 
A      D 
  Stay out 


Instrumental: A E/G# D A E D  (x2) 


Verse: 3 
A           E D 
Shout it out 
A                E   D 
Songs we used to sing 
A              E        D  A    E D 
No one gives a damn for anything 


Verse: 4 
A        E D 
Any doubt 
    A                E  D 
the world is still a lie 
A              E        D        A   E D 
Maybe I should just lay down and die 


D 
  Fairweather friends will say 
A 
All good days just fade away 
D 
  To those fools I say 
A 
Yesterday is just yesterday 
D 
  Fairweather friends will say 
A      D 
  Stay out 
A      D  A E D A E D 
  Stay out 


Instrumental: A E/G# D A E D  (x4) 


D 
  Fairweather friends will say 
A 
All good days just fade away 
D 
  To those fools I say 
A 
Yesterday is just yesterday 
D 
  Fairweather friends will say 
A 
All good days just fade away 
D 
  To those fools I say 
A      D 
  Stay out 
A      D 
  Stay out 
A      D 
  Stay out  
    	

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