Song: Too good to be true
Artist: Tom Petty
Composer: Tom Petty
Album: Into the great wide open
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' at ultimateGuitar.com)
2nd Nov 2016
TUNING:
The album track is quite sharp of concert pitch.
To play along use a chromatic tuner and tune all the
strings up approx.(+40)
N.B.
Please IGNORE ANY POP-UP CHORD BOXES the website
might automatically suggest and use the typed shapes
shown below:
E7sus4 = 020230 D = xx0232
Em = 022000 Am7 = x02010
G = 320033 Bm7 = x20202
A = x02220 Cadd9 = x32030
N.C. = No chords
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[Intro]
E7sus4 Em G A G
| / ||: / / / / | / / / / :||[x4]
[Verse 1]
Em G A G Em G A G
Her imagi - na - tion ran wild,
Em G A G Em G A G
Could this really hap - pen to me?
Em G A G Em G A G
She could barely hold back the tears!
[Chorus]
D Am7
It was ...too good to be true,
D Am7
It was ...too good to be true,
D Am7 Bm7 Cadd9
It was ...too good to be true--------------------!
| / / / / | / / / / |
[Break]
Em G A G
||: / / / / | / / / / :||[x2]
[Verse 2]
Em G A G Em G A G
Everything that she'd waited for,
Em G A G Em G A G
Everything that she'd dared to dream,
Em G A G Em G A G
Suddenly, was out - side her door!
[Chorus]
D Am7
It was ...too good to be true,
D Am7
It was ...too good to be true,
D Am7 Bm7 Cadd9
It was ...too good to be true--------------------!
| / / / / | / / / / |
[Break]
Em G A G
||: / / / / | / / / / :||[x2]
[Bridge]
D Cadd9
There was no talk of giving in,
D Cadd9
And just as hope was wearing thin,
D Cadd9
Her eyes were like a child again!
| / / / / | /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/ |
Em G A G
Too good to be true!
[Break]
Em G A G
||: / / / / | / / / / :||[x3]
[Verse 3]
Em G A G Em G A G
Morning, on the out - skirts of town,
Em G A G Em G A G
Sitting in the traf - fic, a - lone,
Em G A G Em G A G
You don't know what it means to be free-------!
[Chorus]
D Am7
And it was ...too good to be true,
D Am7
It was ...too good to be true,
D Am7 Bm7 Cadd9
It was ...too good to be true--------------------!
| / / / / | / / / / |
Cadd9
| /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/ | /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/ |
Em G A G
Too good to be true!
[Break]
Em G A G
||: / / / / | / / / / :||[x3]
E7sus4 N.C. x x
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Coda]
Em G A G Em
||: / / / / | / / / / :||[Repeat] | / ||
