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Artist: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Song: Free Falling
Album: Full Moon Fever
Tabbed by Tim Burke (timburkenz@hotmail.com)
There are quite a few tabs for this classic song but I'm pretty sure most of them,
which are tabbed in the key of D, are wrong. If you use standard tuning and place a
capo on the third fret you can play the song keyed in F which I think sounds a lot
better.
Chords used:
F Fsus4 Csus4
e|-----5-----6-----3-----
B|-----6-----6-----6-----
G|-----5-----5-----5-----
D|-----3-----3-----5-----
A|-----------------3-----
E|-----------------------
I'm going to tab the song for guitar 1 as though the capoed third fret was the
guitar's open tuning. Guitar 2 is tabbed in standard tuning.
Intro:
Guitar 1: Acoustic
g|--2--3----3-2--0--|--2--3----3-2--0--|
D|--3--3----3-3--3--|--3--3----3-3--3--|
A#|--2--2----2-2--2--|--2--2----2-2--2--|
F|--0--0----0-0--2--|--0--0----0-0--2--|
C|---------------0--|---------------0--|
G|------------------|------------------|
Verse 1:
Guitar 1 with a down strum on each chord only.
She's a gFood Fsus4girl Fsus4lo----Fves her mCsus4ama,
Verse 2:
Guitar 1 continues with single down strum, drums and bass come in.
Bass line:
A|o----1----1-0--3-o|-----This same riff is repeated throughout------|
E|o-1--------------o|-----most of the song and doesn't change.-------|
Lyrics:
An' it's a long day livin' in Reseda,
There's a freeway runnin' through the yard,
An' I'm a bad boy 'cause I don't even miss her,
I'm a bad boy for breakin' her heart.
Chorus:
Guitar 1 strums the chords in a different pattern but with exactly the same timing
and progression.
|---------Note---------
| Commas, full-stops F Fsus4 Fsus4 F Csus4 |and exclamation marks Loves Jesus and Amer -- ica too. |in the lyrics denote F Fsus4 Fsus4 F Csus4 |the separation between She's a good girl cra zy 'bout Elvis, |two bars of the music. She loves hForsFsus4es and her bFsus4 oy F- fCsus4riend t|
oo. |Now I'm frFee!Fsus4 Fsus4 F Csus4
I'm free fFallFsus4in'! Fsus4 F Csus4
Yeah I'm fFreeFsus4! Fsus4 F Csus4
I'm free fFallFsus4in'! Fsus4 F Csus4
Verse 3:
And all the vampires walking through the valley,
Move west down Ventura Boulevard,
And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows,
And the good girls are at home with broken hearts.
Chorus:
Now I'm frFee!Fsus4 Fsus4 F Csus4
I'm free fFallFsus4in'! Fsus4 F Csus4
Yeah I'm fFreeFsus4! Fsus4 F Csus4
I'm free fFallFsus4in'! Fsus4 F Csus4
First bridge:
Guitar 1:
g|--2---3----3-2--0----|----2--3----3-2--0--|
D|--3---3----3-3--3----|----3--3----3-3--3--|
A#|--2---2----2-2--2----|----2--2----2-2--2--|
F|--0---0----0-0--2----|----0--0----0-0--2--|
C|----------------0----|------------0-------|
G|---------------------|--------------------|
Guitar 2: Electric, clean
D|--------------7--7-5--3h5-3---------------|