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From: d0malaga@dtek.chalmers.se (Tomas Aronsson)
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Tom Petty:
American girl
The apartment song
Breakdown
The best of everything
A change of heart
Depending on you
A face in the crowd
Feel a whole lot better
I won't back down
In the dark of the sun
Into the great white open
Learning to fly
Love is a long road
Rebels
Running down a dream
Southern accents
The waiting
Yer so bad
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~Title: BREAKDOWN (Tom Petty)
Am G Am G
Its alright if you love me,
Am G Am G
Its alright if you don't
Am G Am G
I'm not afraid of you runnin away honey,
Am G Fmaj7
I got this feeling you won't
Am G Am G
Say there aint no use in pretending,
Am G Am G
Your eyes give you away
Am G Am G
Something inside you is feeling like I do,
Am G Fmaj7
We said all there is to say
Fmaj7 G/f Am/f G/f
Am G F G
Breakdown go ahead and give it to me
Am G F G
Breakdown take me through the night
Am G F G
Breakdown go ahead give it to me,
Am G Fmaj7
Breakdown its alright,
Fmaj7 G/f Am/f G/f Fmaj7 G/f Am/F G/F Am G Am G
its alright its alright
DEPENDING ON YOU — Petty
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D A D
I ain't never gonna let you down
A D
All you gotta do is trust me
A Bm
I would never make you some clown
D A D
Baby why won't you trust me
G A G D A
You give up so easily I don't know why you can't see
D C G C D C G C D C G
I'm depending on you, don't let me down
C D C A
I'm depending on you
Baby if you can't change the world
Maybe you should just change yourself
You used to be such a sweet young girl
Why you wanna be someone else?
You give up so easily
I don't know why you can't see
I'm depending on you
Is it to late now
I'm depending on you
I WON'T BACK DOWN — Petty
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C#m B E C#m B E
Well I won't back down, no I won't back down
C#m B A
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
C#m B E
But I won't back down
C#m B E C#m B E
Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around
C#m B A
And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down
C#m B E C#m B E AE
Gonna stand my ground and I won't back down
A E B EA E B E
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
A E B C#m B E C#m B E
hey I will stand my ground and I won't back down
Well I know what's right I got just one life
In a world that keep on pushin' me around
But I'll stand my ground and I won't back down
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground and I won't back down
And I won't back down
No I wont't back down
LOVE IS A LONG ROAD — Petty
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Intro: B AE E DA B DA E DA
B D A
There was a girl in town
E D A
She said she cared about me
B D A
She tried to make my world
E D A
The way she tought it should be
G D A
Yeah we were desperate then
G D
To have each other to hold
A B E B E
But love is a long, long road
There were so many times
I would wake up at noon
With my head spinning 'round
I would wait for the moon
And give her one more chance
To try and save my soul
But love is a long, long road
Yeah it was hard to give up
Some things are hard to let go
Somethings are never enough
I guess I only can hope
For maybe one more chance
To try and save my soul
But love is a long, long road
RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM — Petty
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E
It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down
D E
I had the radio on. I was drivin'
D
Trees flew by, me and Del was singin' little runaway
E
I was flyin'
CHORUS
A G E
Yeah I'm runnin' down a dream
E G A
That never would come to me
A G E E G A
Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads
A G E
Runnin' down a dream
I felt so good like anything was possible
I hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes
The last tree days the rain was un—stoppable
It was always cold, no sunshine
CHORUS
I rolled on as the sky grew dark
I put the pedal down to make some time
There's something good waitin' down this road
I'm pickin' up whatever's mine
CHORUS
THE WAITING — Petty
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Intro goes like this:
G D/F# Asus4 D G D/F# Asus4
chords:
D/F# 2xO23x
Asus4 xO223O
A
Baby Dont It Feal Like H
G D A G D
heaven right now Dont it Feal Like sin Dream Yeah
A G D
Ive never Known nothin Quite like This Dont it
Bm
Feal like tonight Might never be again Baby
A
We know better than to try and pretend honey
A
no one could a ever told me bout this I said yeah yeah(yeah yeah)
A
yeah yeah yeah The
G D/F# A D
wait—ing is the hardest part
G D/F# Asus4 G D/F#
every day ya see one more card you take it on faith you
A D G D/F# Asus4 D
take it to the heart the wait ing is the hardest part
YER SO BAD — Petty
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|— Am D G Am
|v My sister got lucky, married a yuppie
|E
|r Am D G
|s took him for all he was worth
|E
| Am D G Am
|1 now she's a swinger, dating a singer
|
| Am D G
|— I can't decide which is worse
pre— Em C D G Em C D G
chorus but not me baby, I've got you to save me
|—
|C G D C G D C
|h oh yer so bad, best thing I ever had
|o
|r G D C G D C D
|u in a world gone mad, yer so bad
|s
|—
|— Am D G Am
| My sister's ex—husband can't get no lovin'
|v
|E Am D G
|r walks around dog—faced and hurt
|s
|E Am D G Am
| now he's got nothin', head in the oven
|2
| Am D G
|— I can't decide which is worse
THE APARTMENT SONG — Petty
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A
I used to live in a two—room apartment
E A
Neighbors knockin' on my wall
Times were hard I don't wanna knock it
E A
I don't miss it much at all
CHORUS
D A E A D A E
Oh yeah I'm alright I just feel a little lonely tonight
D A E A D A E A
I'm okay most of the time I just feel a little lonely tonight
I used to need your love so badly
Then I came to live with it
Lately I get a faraway feeling
And the whole thing starts again
(CHORUS and 2nd verse)
~Title: FEEL A WHOLE LOT BETTER (Byrds,Gene Clark)
1964
A
The reason why, Oh I can't say
E F#m B
I had to let you go babe, And right away
A D Bm
After what you did, I can't stay on
Bm A E
And I`ll probably feel a whole lot better
D E A
When you're gone
A
Baby for a long time, You had me believe
E F#m B
That your love was all mine, And that's the way it would be
A D Bm
But I didn't know, That you were puttin' me on
Bm A E
And I`ll probably feel a whole lot better
E D E A
When you're gone, Oh when you're gone
A
Now I got to say, That it's not like before
E F#m B
And I'm not gonna play, You're game any more
A D Bm
After what you did, I can't stay on
Bm A E
And I`ll probably feel a whole lot better
E D E A
When you're gone
Bm A E
I`ll probably feel a whole lot better
E D E A
When you're gone, Oh when you're gone
E A G A G A G A
Oh when you're gone
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In the Dark of the Sun — Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, from the
"Into the Great Wide Open" album
Intro:
G D C D
G D C D
In the dark of the sun
G D C D
Will you save me a place
G D/F# C/E D
Give me hope, Give me comfort
C D G D C D
Get me to a better place
G D C D
Saw you sail across a river
G D C D
Underneath Orion's sword
G D/F# C/E D
In your eyes there was a freedom
C D
I had never known before
Chorus:
Em D G
Hey yeah yeah
G Em D G
In the dark of the sun
Em D G C Em D
We will stand together
D G D C
Yeah we will stand as one
D G
Oh in the dark of the sun
(Solo)
G D C D
Past my days of great confusion
G D C D
Past my days of wondering why
G D/F# C/E D
Will I sail into the heavens
C D
Constellations in my eyes
Chorus (X2)
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A Change Of Heart — Tom Petty
Intro Riff — C G A G F
C G A G
This is played twice as — C GG A G F C GG AG G with muted strums
after the C GG's
VERSE
C G A G F
Well I fought for you
C G A G
I fought too hard
C G A G F
to do it all again babe,
C G A G
its gone to far
A
You never needed me
G F
You only wanted me around
G
It gets me down
CHORUS
C G A G F
There's been a change,
A G
yeah there's been a change of heart
C G A G F
Said there's been a change
A
You push just a little too far
G
You make it just a little to hard
F
Theres been a change of heart
I'll get over you
It won't take long
I've stood in yer gallery
seen what's hang'in from the wall
You were the moon and sun,
Yer just a loaded gun now
It get's me down
+ CHORUS +
BRIDGE
G A G A
Whoa yeah, oh boy
G F
Looks like we finally found the turning point
G A G A
Oh me, oh my
G F G
Looks like its time for me to kiss it goodbye, yeah kiss it goodbye
+ CHORUS +
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A Face In The Crowd — Tom Petty
it goes something like this :—
Em C
Before All of this ever went down
Em C
in another place, another town
D Am
you were just a face in the crowd
D Am
you were just a face in the crowd
Bm Am Em
out in the street walking around a face in the crowd
out of a dream, out of the sky
into my heart, into my life
And you were just a face in the crowd
out in the street, thinking out loud
A face in the crowd
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INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN by TOM PETTY from the album of same name
The intro and first few bars of the verse seem to be the following:
Em Em? Em7 Em6
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b———0————————————————— The chord names are probably a bit
g———0————————————————— dodgy but — hey. If you play this
d———2————1———0———————— on an acoustic 12 string (like TP's
a———2————2———2———4———— nice Martin one ...) it sounds ok.
e———0————0———0———0————
Em Em? Em7 Em6
Eddie waited till he finished high school
Em Em? Em7 Em6
He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo
Am Am/G Am/F# Am/G
He met a girl out there with a tattoo too
G F C G C G
The future was wide open.
Em Em? Em7 Em6
They moved into a place they both could afford
Em Em? Em7 Em6
He found a nightclub he could work at the door
Am Am/G Am/F# Am/G
She had a guitar and she taught him some chords
G F C G C G G C GD
The sky was the limit.
G C D(sus4) G Em D Am
Into the great wide open, under them skies of blue
G C D(sus4) G F Em A
Out in the great wide open, a rebel without a clue.
(instrum: play the intro riff and end with G then A — I think)
The papers said Ed always played from the heart
He got an agent and a roadie named Bart
They made a record and it went in the charts
The sky was the limit.
His leather jacket had chains that would jingle
They both met movie stars, partied and mingled.
Their A&R man said "I don't hear a single."
The future was wide open.
Into the great wide open, under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open, a rebel without a clue.
Into the great wide open, under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open, a rebel without a clue.
final flourish: G C G G C G.
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~Subject: TAB: Learning To Fly (Tom Petty)
This is a pretty simple one 1 guitar plays the simple chord pattern
F C Am G
The other guitar plays this little riff:
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