My Friends Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays518

My Friends by Red Hot Chili Peppers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, F, G, C, Am and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
D
Text
16
Speed
  			
(Intro)   D    F    G    C  (2x)  

(Verse 1)  

D             F         G    C  
My friends are so depressed....I feel the  
D                F       G      C  
Question of your loneliness....Confide...'cause  
D               F  G     C  
I'll be on your side....You know I will...  
D       F         G   C  
....You know I will.......        
    
Ex-girlfriend called me up  
Alone and desperate on the prison phone  
They want to give her seven years  
For being sad  

C      Am         C    D      A  
I love all of you, Hurt by the cold  
C          Am              C       D         A  
So hard and lonely too, ...When you don't know yourself   

My friends are so distressed  
And standing on the brink of emptiness  
No words I know of to express  
This emptiness  

C      Am         C    D      A  
I love all of you, Hurt by the cold  
C          Am              C       D         A  
So hard and lonely too, ...When you don't know yourself   

(Solo)

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Reference tones

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

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante