Released: November 9, 1976
Songwriter: Tom Petty Mike W. Campbell
Producer: Denny Cordell
"Refugee" is a late-70s song recorded by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, written by band members Tom Petty (lyrics) and Mike Campbell (music). It was released in January 1980 as the second single from their 1979 album "Damn the Torpedoes". It peaked at number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1980. Read more on Last.fm.
Length: 4:26
Some friends of mine and me stayed up all through the night
Rocking pretty steady till the sky went light
And didn't go to bed
Didn't go to work
I picked up the telephone
Told the boss he was a jerk
Your mama don't like it when you run around
With me
But we got to hip your mama
That you got to live free
Don't need her. Don't need school
You don't like your daddy and you don't like rules
So, come on baby let's go
Don't you hear the rock 'n' roll playing on the radio
Sound so right?
Girl your better grab hold
Everybody's got to know
Anything that's rock 'n' roll's fine [x2]
Oh oo oh my little baby
I'm a little bit shaking
I'm a little bit crazy
But I know what I want
I want to it right now
While the electric guitars are playing way up loud
(Chorus)
Rocking pretty steady till the sky went light
And didn't go to bed
Didn't go to work
I picked up the telephone
Told the boss he was a jerk
Your mama don't like it when you run around
With me
But we got to hip your mama
That you got to live free
Don't need her. Don't need school
You don't like your daddy and you don't like rules
So, come on baby let's go
Don't you hear the rock 'n' roll playing on the radio
Sound so right?
Girl your better grab hold
Everybody's got to know
Anything that's rock 'n' roll's fine [x2]
Oh oo oh my little baby
I'm a little bit shaking
I'm a little bit crazy
But I know what I want
I want to it right now
While the electric guitars are playing way up loud
(Chorus)
more tracks from the album
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Greatest Hits (1993)
- Mary Jane’s Last Dance
- I Need to Know
- Into the Great Wide Open
- Don’t Come Around Here No More
- You Got Lucky
- Listen to Her Heart
- Anything That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll
- Runnin’ Down a Dream
- Even the Losers
- Free Fallin’
- The Waiting
- American Girl
- Learning to Fly
- Don’t Do Me Like That
- Here Comes My Girl
- Refugee
- I Won’t Back Down
- Breakdown
From the albums
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers popular songs
- Mary Jane’s Last Dance
- Learning to Fly
- American Girl
- The Waiting
- Breakdown
- Refugee
- Into the Great Wide Open
- You Got Lucky
- Here Comes My Girl
- Don’t Come Around Here No More
- Walls (Circus)
- Even the Losers
- Insider
- Don’t Do Me Like That
- Rebels
- It’ll All Work Out
- Christmas All Over Again
- Swingin’
- Southern Accents
- Listen to Her Heart
- I Need to Know
- Room at the Top
- A Face in the Crowd
- Jammin’ Me