Running Scared

"Running Scared" is a 1961 song by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson, Orbison's first number-one hit in the United States. This page has the Running Scared chords and a backing track you can slow down, speed up and transpose.

Who wrote "Running Scared"

Roy Orbison and Joe Melson wrote it. Orbison recorded it for Monument in 1961; the song builds like a bolero from a quiet start to a full-voiced last line, and it topped the American chart that June.

Recordings that made it a standard

• Roy Orbison (Monument, 1961).