• Song:

    Into the Great Wide Open

  • Artist:

    Tom Petty

  • Album:

    Damn the Torpedoes/Sout...

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Sender: mes3sl@mech.surrey.ac.uk (Shaun Lawson)

Here's a slightly more tricky TP song - any suggestions or corrections
are most welcome. Anyway here comes my version of ...

INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN by TOM PETTY from the album of same name
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The intro and first few bars of the verse seem to be the following:

    Em (022000@1)Em? Em7 Em6 (022020@1)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 (022000@1)  Em?            Em7           Em6Eddie (022020@1)waited till he finished high school
Em (022000@1)       Em?        Em7      Em6He (022020@1)went to Hollywood, got a tattoo
Am (x02210@1)     Am/G (302210@1)             Am/F# (202210@1)   Am/GHe (302210@1)met a girl out there with a tattoo too
    G (320003@1)        F (133211@1)  C (x32010@1)     G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C GThe (320003@1)future was wide open.

Em (022000@1)       Em?               Em7        Em6They (022020@1)moved into a place they both could afford
Em (022000@1)       Em?                Em7         Em6He (022020@1)found a nightclub he could work at the door
Am (x02210@1)      Am/G (302210@1)          Am/F# (202210@1)        Am/GShe (302210@1)had a guitar and she taught him some chords
    G (320003@1) F (133211@1)     C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C G (320003@1)   G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C GD
The sky was the limit.

G (320003@1)      C (x32010@1)        D(sus4)  G (320003@1)        Em (022000@1)     D (xx0232@1)   AmInto (x02210@1)the great wide open,    under them skies of blue
G (320003@1)        C (x32010@1)        D(sus4)    G (320003@1)       F (133211@1)   Em (022000@1)   AOut (x02220@1)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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