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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
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/tom_petty/18tracks_crd.html ]
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
e---0-----------------
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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