PETTY TOM - "into the great wide open" Tablature

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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 ...
Em Em? Em7 Em6
He went to Hollywood...
Am Am/G Am/F# Am/G
He met a girl out there ...
G F C G C G
The future was ...

Em Em? Em7 Em6
They moved into a place they ...
Em Em? Em7 Em6
He found a nightclub he ...
Am Am/G Am/F# Am/G
She had a guitar and she ...
G F C G C G G C GD
The sky was the ...

G C D(sus4) G Em D Am
Into the great wide open, under ...
G C D(sus4) G F Em A
Out in the great wide open, a ...


(instrum: play the intro riff and end with G then A - I think)

The papers said Ed always ...

final flourish: G C G G C G.

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