x#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: [email protected] (Tomas Aronsson) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ===================================================== ~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 ======================== 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 ========================= 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 =========================== 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 ============================ 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 =================== 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 ================== |- 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 ========================== 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 ====================================================== 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) ================================================= 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 + ================================================= 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 ================================================================= 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. ------------------------------------------------------ ~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: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------1---1-----1---1--0--1-0-1----1--1---1----1-----1-0--1-0-1 -2-0----0---0-0---0-------------2-0--0-0-0---0----0----------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------