Refugee Chords

KeyF#m CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays497

Refugee by Tom Petty is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F#m. It uses the chords F#m, A, E, D and B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
F#m
Text
16
Speed
  			      
     Intro:   F#m A | A E | F#m A | A E | F#m | F#m E | F#m A | A E | 
      
     Verse: 
     F#m                        A                   E         F#m      A    
     E 
     We got something we both know it we dont talk too much about it 
     F#m                     A                  E         F#m        A   E 
     Aint no real big secret all the same, somehow we get around it 
     E         D             
        Listen, it don't really matter to me baby 
     B 
     You believe what you want to believe. You see you 
      
      
     Chorus: 
     F#m           A              E      F#m                      A   E 
     don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee) 
      
     (Repeat the above measures..) 
      
     Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. 
     Tell me why you wanna lay there, revel in your abandon. 
      
     Honey, it don't make no difference to me. 
     Baby, everybody's had to fight to be free. 
     You see, you don't have to live like a refugee. 
     No baby, you don't have to live like a refugee. 
      
     E 
     Baby we aint the first  
     A 
     I'm sure a lot of other lovers been burned 
     D  
     Right now it seems real to you, but it's 
     E 
     One of those things you gotta feel to be true 
      
      
     Solo:  F#m | F#m E | F#m A |F#m E | F#m A | A E |F#m A | A E | 
      
     Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. 
     Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped, tied-up, taken away, and held for 
     ransom. 
      
     Honey, it don't really matter to me. 
     Baby, everybody's had to fight to be free. 
     You see, you don't have to live like a refugee. 
     No, you don't have to live like a refugee. 
     Baby, you don't have to live like a refugee. 
 

    	

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