Friend To The Friendless chords by The World Inferno Friendship Society

Chords with lyrics

FRIEND TO THE FRIENDLESS - The World/Inferno Friendship Society
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Tabbed by: David Long
Email: [email protected]

Starts in G+G minor, 3/4 time

I can't speak for the lyrics, but I'm confident the chords are right.
Unfortunately the formatting on this page doesn't allow me to situate the chord names
directly above the word where it changes, so you'll have to feel the changes yourself.
Pay attention to key changes and the way certain chords switch between major and minor
in some instances.

I took some creative license with the intro, which I play as follows:

e|--3------------------------1------------1----------|
BB|--3-------3----------4-----3--------------4-2-1----|
G+G|--3--2-0--2----------3-----0h2-0-----3-------------|
D MajorD|----------3--2-0-----5--0--------3-4---------------|
A augmentedA|------------------6--------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------|

e|--3------------------------1------------1------------1/6-4--|
BB|--3-------3----------4-----3--------------4-3-2----2--------|
G+G|--3--2-0--2----------3-----0h2-0-----3-----------3----------|
D MajorD|----------3--2-0-----5--0--------3-4------------------------|
A augmentedA|------------------6-----------------------------------------|
E MajorE|------------------------------------------------------------|

[This melody leads directly into the verse, which can be achieved almost entirely with
bar chords:]

     G minorGm    DmDm    Eb7Eb7      D7D7
I'm not above drinking alone but no good ever comes of it,

  EbmEbm
unless you count me talking to you now

    G minorGm      DmDm    Eb7Eb7    D7D7
So, have you been hurt? Did you hurt someone?

      EbmEbm
Did you get all crashed down upon?

    C# minorC#m    A augmentedA     E MajorE     AbmAbm
Me, I'm a friend to the friendless not that I chose it

     C# minorC#m   A augmentedA     AbAb
and if I had well then who knows?

[For the next line two lines you can either repeat G minorGm > DmDm > Eb7Eb7 > D7D7 > Ebm,
holding out the last chord until "money," or you can sing along to the introductory
melody as shown below]

But that one guy on the train all talking to himself, shit he's talking to
e|-----3------------------------1------------1----------|
BB|-----3-------3----------4-----3--------------4-2-1----|
G+G|-----3--2-0--2----------3-----0h2-0-----3-------------|
D MajorD|-------------3--2-0-----5--0--------3-4---------------|
A augmentedA|----------------------6-------------------------------|
E MajorE|------------------------------------------------------|

     me, he's saying "At school they taught me a prayer for
e|-----------1----------1---------1----------1-------|
BB|---------2---2------2---2------2--2------2---2-----|
G+G|---3---3------3---3------3---3-----3---3-----------|
D MajorD|-----4----------4----------4---------4-------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------|


  G minorGm     DmDm     Eb7Eb7     D7D7
money, a prayer for crap jobs right till I die

      G minorGm  DmDm  Eb7Eb7   FF     G+G
never a prayer for people, the brokenhearted the lonely"

    G minorGm     DmDm     Eb7Eb7      D7D7
Did you let the blues make you bad

 EbmEbm
Did you get all twisted?

          G minorGm      DmDm      Eb7Eb7      D7D7
Did you get so drunk you whispered "I think I'm gonna die?"

     EbmEbm
Did you pass nights wondering why you never saw it coming?

C# minorC#m  A augmentedA   E MajorE   AbmAbm  C# minorC#m  A augmentedA
   AbAb
Nobody ever sees it coming, no exceptions at all

 C# minorC#m  A augmentedA   E MajorE   AbmAbm  C# minorC#m
A augmentedA    AbAb
I said nobody ever sees it coming, no exceptions at all

    A augmentedA      FF       C majorC     E MajorE
I'm a friend to the friendless and I don't care

      FF
If I had a choice in this it wouldn't be fair

    A augmentedA      FF      C majorC      E MajorE
but I don't so let's not get all carried away

   FF
with shit you wouldn't change anyway,

   FF           E MajorE
let's make this a prayer for

  C# minorC#m    A augmentedA       E MajorE       AbmAbm
money, a prayer for Sundays through Mondays

 C# minorC#m    A augmentedA     AbAb
and crap jobs right til I die.

  A minorAm      C# minorC#m      E MajorE      AbmAbm
Because where we are now we won't always be

     A augmentedA          Eb MajorEb
and shit man that could be me

   G minorGm          DmDm        Eb7Eb7
  D7D7
getting hurt, hurting someone getting all crashed down upon

    EbmEbm
burning holes in butterfly's

  G minorGm     DmDm    Eb7Eb7    D7D7    EbmEbm
wings, wishing, wishing, wishing, wish for other things

C# minorC#m  A augmentedA     E MajorE    AbmAbm   C# minorC#m
A augmentedA    AbAb
Nobody ever sees it coming, no exceptions at all

A minorAm  C# minorC#m   E MajorE    AbmAbm    A augmentedA
   Eb MajorEb
Nobody ever sees it coming, are you ready for this?

 G minorGm      DmDm     Eb7Eb7    D7D7
Never wear white socks with black shoes

 EbmEbm
Don't get all twisted

G minorGm      DmDm     Eb7Eb7    D7D7
Don't let the blues make you bad

 EbmEbm
I know you miss him

   C# minorC#m     A augmentedA   E MajorE     AbmAbm
Don't let your standards fall down with your hair

    C# minorC#m  A augmentedA       AbAb
How it felt when you kissed her

C# minorC#m      A augmentedA   E MajorE       AbmAbm
Straighten your tie, tuck in your shirt

     A augmentedA         FF
I'm a friend to the friendless

  C majorC          E MajorE         FF
And I don't know why but come on kids, just walk right on by

   A augmentedA        FF       C majorC       E MajorE
I know you are lonely, you'll not always be

 FF                           E MajorE
You are so many things you will not always be.

e|--3------------------------1------------1---6--4---|
BB|--3-------3----------4-----3--------------4--------|
G+G|--3--2-0--2----------3-----0h2-0-----3-------------|
D MajorD|----------3--2-0-----5--0--------3-4---------------|
A augmentedA|------------------6--------------------------------|