Tom Petty

Tom Petty - Into The Great Wide Open guitar chord

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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 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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