My Friends   Red Hot Chili Peppers

Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 23:10:50 -0600



The Red Hot Chili Peppers
My Friends

Tune the low E string to D (1 step down)

Intro:
E:----------0-------------0--------------------------|
B:----------3-------------3--------------------------|
G:------2-----------0-2-------------0-2--------020-0-|
D:--0-----------0-3---------3---0-2---------02----2--|
A:----------------------------2---------2-3----------|
D:---------------------------------------------------|
	My friends are so depressed...

Chorus:
E:-------------------------------|
B:--1---1-------1--------3---1---|
G:--0---2-------0--------0---2---|
D:--2---2-----2--------4-----2---|
A:--3---0---3------3--5------0---|
D:-------------------------------|
	I love all of you...

Middle Part:
E:----------------------------------------------------|
B:----------------------------------------------------|
G:--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-|
D:--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-|
A:--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|
D:----------------------------------------------------|
	Imagine me taught by tragedy...
E:----------------------------------------------------|
B:----------------------------------------------------|
G:--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-----------------------------------|
D:--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|
A:--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|
D:-------------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|
		     Release in peace...
E:-----------------------------------|
B:-----------------------------------|
G:-----------------------------------|
D:--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|
A:--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|
D:--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|

End Part:
E:------------------------------------0-----------------|
B:------3-------3---------------------3-----------------|
G:----2-------2---------0--------0----2-----------------|
D:--0-----0-3-----3---0--------0---0--0---0-------0-----|
A:------------------1-----1-12----------0---0---2-------|
D:--------------------------------------------3-----3-0-|

Lyrics:

My friends are so depressed
I feel the question of your loneliness
Confide 'cause I'll be on your side
You know I will 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

Chorus:
I love all of you
Hurt by the cold
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

Chorus

Imagine me taught by tragedy
Release in peace

I heard a little girl
And what she said 
Was something beautiful
To give your love 
No matter what she said

---

Daniel Routman
dbr@ionet.net

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This is the solo for My_Friends off One Hot Minute.
On the record these Chords are played underneath  the solo to the verse rythym.

         D/F#   Fmaj7   G    C
     ----0--------0-----3----0----------------
     ----3--------3-----3----1----------------
     ----2--------2-----0----0---------------
     ----0--------3-----0----2----------------
     -------------0-----2----3---------------
     -------------------3------------------

Solo:
     --------------------------------------------------------------------
     --------------------------------------------------------------------
     --------------------------------------------------------------------
     --------------------------------------------------------------------
     --9--9--9--9--5h7--5/3--3h5--3/2--2--2--2h3/5-5-5-5-----------------
     --------------------------------------------------------------------

     --------------------------------------------------------------------
     --------------------------------------------------------------------
     --------------------------------------------------------------------
     ---------------7h9--7/5--5--5--5--5/12------------------------------
     --9--9--9--9--------------------------------------------------------
     --------------------------------------------------------------------

    Then you just repeat the whole section again and then it goes off into
"imagine me
    taunt by tradegy......".  If anyone has any suggestions,flares or thanks
it would be 
    cool if you could e-mail me- zzagibso@dingo.uq.edu.au.  I don't think I
have put the 
    right amount of times you play each note but you can figure that out. If
anyone has     any other chili peppers or John frusciante songs could you
e-mail them to me. Just     while I am doing this Australian bands are the
best in the world. Enjoy.               Martin Gibson.