Thomas Earl Petty (20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017) was an American musician, singer, composer and songwriter best known for fronting Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Apart from the band, he released three solo albums: "Full Moon Fever" (1989), "Wildflowers" (1994) and "Highway Companion" (2006).
After working with his early bands The Sundowners, The Epics, and Mudcrutch (which also included future Heartbreakers members Mike Campbell and Benmont
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
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 Wide Open Learning to Fly Love is a Long Road Rebels Runnin' Down a Dream Southern Accents The Waiting Yer So Bad
AmGAmG Its alright if you love me, AmGAmG Its alright if you don't AmGAmG I'm not afraid of you runnin away honey, AmGFmaj7 I got this feeling you won't AmGAmG Say there aint no use in pretending, AmGAmG Your eyes give you away
AmGAmG Something inside you is feeling like I do, AmGFmaj7 We said all there is to say
Fmaj7G/FAm/FG/F
AmGFG Breakdown go ahead and give it to me AmGFG Breakdown take me through the night AmGFG Breakdown go ahead give it to me, AmGFmaj7 Breakdown its alright,
Fmaj7G/FAm/FG/FFmaj7G/FAm/FG/FAmGAmG its alright its alright
DEPENDING ON YOU - Petty ========================
DAD I ain't never gonna let you down AD All you gotta do is trust me ABm I would never make you some clown DAD Baby why won't you trust me
GAGDA You give up so easily I don't know why you can't see DCGCDCGCDCG I'm depending on you, don't let me down CDCA 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#mBEC#mBE Well I won't back down, no I won't back down C#mBA You can stand me up at the gates of hell C#mBE But I won't back down
C#mBEC#mBE Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around C#mBA And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down C#mBEC#mBE AE Gonna stand my ground and I won't back down
AEB EA EBE Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out AEBC#MBEC#mBE 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
BDA There was a girl in town EDA She said she cared about me BDA She tried to make my world EDA The way she tought it should be GDA Yeah we were desperate then GD To have each other to hold ABEBE 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 DE I had the radio on. I was drivin' D Trees flew by, me and Del was singin' little runaway E I was flyin'
CHORUS AGE Yeah I'm runnin' down a dream EGA That never would come to me AGEEGA Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads AGE 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: GD/F#Asus4DGD/F#Asus4
chords: D/F# 2xO23x Asus4 xO223O
A Baby Dont It Feal Like H GDAGD heaven right now Dont it Feal Like sin Dream Yeah AGD 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 GD/F#AD wait-ing is the hardest part GD/F#Asus4GD/F# every day ya see one more card you take it on faith you ADGD/F#Asus4D take it to the heart the wait ing is the hardest part
YER SO BAD - Petty ==================
|- AmDGAm |v My sister got lucky, married a yuppie |E |r AmDG |s took him for all he was worth |E | AmDGAm |1 now she's a swinger, dating a singer | | AmDG |- I can't decide which is worse
pre- EmCDGEmCDG chorus but not me baby, I've got you to save me
|- |CGDCGDC |h oh yer so bad, best thing I ever had |o |r GDCGDCD |u in a world gone mad, yer so bad |s |-
|- AmDGAm | My sister's ex-husband can't get no lovin' |v |EAmDG |r walks around dog-faced and hurt |s |EAmDGAm | now he's got nothin', head in the oven |2 | AmDG |- I can't decide which is worse
THE APARTMENT SONG - Petty ==========================
A I used to live in a two-room apartment EA Neighbors knockin' on my wall
Times were hard I don't wanna knock it EA I don't miss it much at all
CHORUS DAEADAE Oh yeah I'm alright I just feel a little lonely tonight DAEADAEA 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 EF#mB I had to let you go babe, And right away ADBm After what you did, I can't stay on
BmAE And I`ll probably feel a whole lot better DEA When you're gone
A Baby for a long time, You had me believe EF#mB That your love was all mine, And that's the way it would be ADBm But I didn't know, That you were puttin' me on
BmAE And I`ll probably feel a whole lot better EDEA When you're gone, Oh when you're gone
A Now I got to say, That it's not like before EF#mB And I'm not gonna play, You're game any more ADBm After what you did, I can't stay on
BmAE And I`ll probably feel a whole lot better EDEA When you're gone BmAE I`ll probably feel a whole lot better EDEA When you're gone, Oh when you're gone EAGAGAGA 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: GDCD
GDCD In the dark of the sun GDCD Will you save me a place GD/F#C/ED Give me hope, Give me comfort CDGDCD Get me to a better place
GDCD Saw you sail across a river GDCD Underneath Orion's sword GD/F#C/ED In your eyes there was a freedom CD I had never known before
Chorus: EmDG Hey yeah yeah GEmDG In the dark of the sun EmDGCEmD We will stand together DGDC Yeah we will stand as one DG Oh in the dark of the sun
(Solo)
GDCD Past my days of great confusion GDCD Past my days of wondering why GD/F#C/ED Will I sail into the heavens CD Constellations in my eyes
Chorus (X2)
=================================================
A Change Of Heart - Tom Petty
Intro Riff - CGAGF CGAG
This is played twice as - C GG A G F C GG AG G with muted strums after the C GG's
VERSE
CGAGF Well I fought for you CGAG I fought too hard CGAGF to do it all again babe, CGAG its gone to far
A You never needed me GF You only wanted me around G It gets me down
CHORUS CGAGF There's been a change, AG yeah there's been a change of heart CGAGF 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
GAGA Whoa yeah, oh boy GF Looks like we finally found the turning point GAGA Oh me, oh my GFG 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 :-
EmC Before All of this ever went down EmC in another place, another town
DAm you were just a face in the crowd DAm you were just a face in the crowd BmAmEm 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:
EmEm? Em7Em6
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----
EmEm? Em7Em6 Eddie waited till he finished high school EmEm? Em7Em6 He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo AmAm/GAm/F#Am/G He met a girl out there with a tattoo too GFCGCG The future was wide open.
EmEm? Em7Em6 They moved into a place they both could afford EmEm? Em7Em6 He found a nightclub he could work at the door AmAm/GAm/F#Am/G She had a guitar and she taught him some chords GFCGCGGC GD The sky was the limit.
GCD(sus4)GEmDAm Into the great wide open, under them skies of blue GCD(sus4)GFEmA 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.