Free Fallin’ Chords + Lyrics (capo 1)
Intro
||: E Asus2 | Asus2 E B5 :||
Verse 1
||: E Asus2 | Asus2 E B5 :||
She’s a good girl, loves her mama.
Loves Jesus, and America too.
She’s a good girl, is crazy about Elvis.
Loves horses, and her boyfriend too.
Instrumental 1
| E Asus2 | Asus2 E B5 |
Verse 2
||: E Asus2 | Asus2 E B5 :||
And it’s a long day, livin’ in Reseda.
There’s a freeway, runnin’ through the yard.
And I’m a bad boy, ’cause I don’t even miss her.
I’m a bad boy, for breakin’ her heart.
Chorus 1
||: E Asus2 | Asus2 E B5 :||
And I’m free.
Free fallin’.
Yeah I’m free.
Free fallin’.
Verse 3
||: E Asus2 | Asus2 E B5 :||
And all the vampires, walkin’ through the valley.
Move west down, Ventura Boulevard.
And all the bad boys, are standin’ in the shadows.
And the good girls, are home with broken hearts.
Chorus 2
||: E Asus2 | Asus2 E B5 :||
And I’m free.
I’m free fallin’.
Yeah I’m free.
Free fallin’.
Instrumental 2
| E Asus2 | Asus2 E B5 |
Bridge 1
||: E Asus2 | Asus2 E B5 :||
Free fallin, now I’m, free fallin’ now I’m.
| E Asus2 | Asus2 E B5 |
Free fallin’ now I’m, free fallin’ now I’m.
Verse 4
||: E Asus2 | Asus2 E B5 :||
I wanna glide down (oh-ah), over Mulholland.
I wanna write her (oh-ah), name in the sky.
I’m gonna free fall (oh-ah), out into nothin’.
Gonna leave this (oh-ah), world for awhile.
Chorus 3
||: E Asus2 | Asus2 E B5 :||
And I’m free (free fallin’ now I’m, free fallin’ now I’m).
Free fallin’ (free fallin’ now I’m, free fallin’ now I’m).
Yeah, I’m free (free fallin’ now I’m, free fallin’ now I’m).
Free fallin’ (free fallin’ now I’m, free fallin’ now I’m).
Breakdown
||: E5 A5 | A5 E5 B5 :||
Free fallin’ now I’m, free fallin’ now I’m.
Outro
||: E Asus2 | Asus2 E B5 :||
Yeah, I’m free.
Free fallin’.
Oh! (free fallin’ now I’m, free fallin’ now I’m).
Free fallin’ (free fallin’ now I’m, free fallin’ now I’m).
And I’m free (free fallin’ now I’m, free fallin’ now I’m).
Oh! Free fallin’ (free fallin’ now I’m, free fallin’ now I’m).
(Free fallin’ now I’m, free fallin’ now I’m.)
Free fallin’ (free fallin’ now I’m, free fallin’ now I’m).
Free Fallin’ chords and progressions
Free Fallin’, in order to sound right, needs two guitars. The first is played using a capo on fret 1, playing these chords:
||: E Asus2 | Asus2 E B5 :||
The second guitar is played using a capo on fret 3, playing these chords:
||: D G5 | G5 D Asus4 :||
Notice how the position of the capo changes the chord shapes, which makes the two guitars sound bigger.
This is one of the best tricks you can use when designing guitar parts, but also when learning more about how to play the guitar as it teaches you the fretboard. In my acoustic guitar courses, we do this to almost every song.
However, Tom and Mike don’t just play the same chords using different chord shapes, they also use different extensions.
The Asus2 played with a capo on fret 1 is a G5 with a capo on fret 3, effectively letting only one guitar add the color – genius!
The final chord of the loop do this again, but now the other way around, guitar 1 plays a B5, and guitar 2 an Asus4.
This little loop of two bars is so great we don’t need any more chords in Free Fallin’. Only a breakdown section where we remove all extensions for power chords and some dynamic changes provides enough variation.
Here’s TAB for Tom Petty and Mike Cambell’s Free Fallin’ guitar parts. Notice how the strumming is divided up.
Free Fallin’ | Related pages
Five similar tunes
- Angie chords
- End Of The Line chords
- The Joker chords
- Learning To Fly chords
- Stuck In The Middle With You chords
Tom Petty
Tom Petty released most of his albums with his band The Heartbreakers although some solo material appeared as well.
His best-known tunes include American Girl, Free Fallin’, Learning To Fly, Into The Great Wide Open, Don’t Come Around Here No More, and I Won’t Back Down.
Tom Petty on the web
