Greatest Hits

1: American Girl

2: Breakdown

3: Listen To Her Heart

4: I Need To Know

5: Refugee

6: Don't Do Me Like That

7: Even The Losers

8: Here Comes My Girl

9: The Waiting

10: You Got Lucky

11: Don't Come Around Here No More

12: I Won't Back Down

13: Runnin' Down A Dream

14: Free Fallin'

15: Learning To Fly

16: Into The Great Wide Open

17: Mary Jane's Last Dance

18: Something In The Air

Tom Petty - American Girl

Intro:

18 bars D

Two bars E7, two G, A A , D D, E7 E7, G G, A7 A7

Verse 1

{D}Well she was an {E7}American girl.

{G}Raised on {A}promises

{D}She couldn't help {E7}thinking that there was

a {G}little more to life {A}somewhere else

After all it was a {D}great big world

{G}with lots of places to {Em}run to

{A}And if she had to die tryin' she had one little promise she was gonna keep

Chorus:

{G}Oh yeah,{A} allright, {D}take it easy baby {Bm}make it last all night{G}

She was {A} an American {D}girl

Verse 2:

Well it was kinda cold that night

She stood alone on the balcony

Yeh, she could hear the cars roll by,

out on four-fortyone like waves crashing on the beach

And for one des'rate moment there

he crept back in her memory

God it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far to reach. **

(Chorus)

Outro:

D, G7 G7, A D,D,D, lots of D's, G7, G7,A,A, D, D ,D, D,E7 ,G ,D

last piece:

e--5-2-0-3-2-0-5-2-0-3-2-0-|--repeat-|-7-4-0-5-4-0-7-4-0-5-4-0-|repeat--|

and fade out

Tom Petty - Breakdown

Its alright if you love me,

Its alright if you don't

I'm not afraid of you runnin away honey,

I got this feeling you won't

Say there aint no use in pretending,

Your eyes give you away

Something inside you is feeling like I do,

We said all there is to say

Fmaj7 G/f Am/f G/f

Breakdown go ahead and give it to me

Breakdown take me through the night

Breakdown go ahead give it to me,

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

Tom Petty - Listen To Her Heart

Intro:

Verse 1

She`s gonna ..

It`s gonna ..

She might ...

but she ..

Bridge.

G A *(fill)

And you ..

Then you ...

Solo (-verse).

Ref.

Outro. (A, Asus4, A, A9, A)

*Fill (okt. Asus4, A)

Solo.

Tom Petty - I Need To Know

Intro

Verse

Chorus

E5 D5 c5 d5 e5 d5 c5 d5 c5 d5

and then..

Tom Petty - Refugee

Intro:

Verse:

We got something we both know it we dont talk too much about it

Aint no real big secret all the same, somehow we get around it

Listen, it don't really matter to me baby

You believe what you want to believe. You see you

Chorus:

don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee)

(Repeat the above measures..)

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some.

Tell me why you wanna lay there, revel in your abandon.

Honey, it don't make no difference to me.

Baby, everybody's had to fight to be free.

You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

No baby, you don't have to live like a refugee.

Baby we aint the first

I'm sure a lot of other lovers been burned

Right now it seems real to you, but it's

One of those things you gotta feel to be true

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some.

Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped, tied-up, taken away, and held for

ransom.

Honey, it don't really matter to me.

Baby, everybody's had to fight to be free.

You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

No, you don't have to live like a refugee.

Baby, you don't have to live like a refugee.

Tom Petty - Don't Do Me Like That

INTRO: G F C D G F C D FILL #1 E----------3----

I WAS TALKIN' WITH A FRIEND OF MINE

SAID A WOMAN HAD HURT HIS PRIDE

TOLD HIM THAT SHE LOVED HIM SO

AND TURNED AROUND AND LET HIM GO

THEN HE SAID YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR STEP

OR YOU'RE GONNA GET HURT YOURSELF

SOMEONE'S GONNA TELL YOU LIES CUT YOU DOWN TO SIZE

G FILL 1 F FILL 1

DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT

WHAT IF I LOVED YOU BABY DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT

G FILL 1 F FILL 1

DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT

SOMEDAY I MIGHT NEED YOU BABY DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT

LISTEN HONEY CAN'T YOU SEE BABY IT WOULD BURY ME

IF YOU WERE IN THE PUBLIC EYE GIVIN' SOMEONE ELSE A TRY

WELL YOU KNOW YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR STEP

OR YOU'RE GONNA GET HURT YOURSELF

SOMEONE'S GONNA TELL YOU LIES CUT YOU DOWN TO SIZE

G FILL 1 F FILL 1

DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT

WHAT IF I LOVED YOU BABY DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT

G FILL 1 F FILL 1

DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT

WHAT IF I NEED YOU HONEY DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT

'CAUSE SOMEWHERE DEEP DOWN INSIDE SOMEONE IS SAYING

LOVE DOESN'T LAST THAT LONG

I'VE HAD THIS FEELIN' INSIDE NIGHT OUT AND DAY IN

AND I CAN'T TAKE IT NO MORE

LISTEN HONEY CAN'T YOU SEE BABY IT WOULD BURY ME

IF YOU WERE IN THE PUBLIC EYE GIVIN' SOMEONE ELSE A TRY

AND YOU KNOW YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR STEP

OR YOU'RE GONNA GET HURT YOURSELF

SOMEONE'S GONNA TELL YOU LIES CUT YOU DOWN TO SIZE

G FILL 1 F FILL 1

DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT

WHAT IF I LOVED YOU BABY DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT

G FILL 1 F FILL 1

DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT

I JUST MIGHT NEED YOU HONEY DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT

G FILL 1 F FILL 1

DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT

OUTRO/REPEAT (CHORUS W/AD LIB LYRICS)

Tom Petty - Even the Losers

(Intro)

Well it was nearly summer, sat on your roof

Yeah we smoked cigarettes and we stared at the moon

And I showed you stars you never could see

Babe, it couldnt have been that easy to forget about me

Baby time meant nothin anything seemed real

Yeah you could kiss like fire and you made me feel

Like every word you said was meant to be

Babe, it couldnt have been that easy to forget about me

(Chorus)

Baby even the losers

Get lucky sometimes

Even the losers

Keep a little bit of pride

They get lucky sometimes

(Solo, repeat chords as in verses 1&2)

(Bridge)

Two cars parked on the overpass

Rocks hit the water like broken glass

Should have known right then it was too good to last

Its such a drag when you live in the past

(Repeat Chorus to fade)

Tom Petty - Here Comes My Girl

The main progression for the INTRO and VERSE of the song goes like this

Use a 1st finger barre at 2nd fret, move (not slide) it up to 4th fret.

When you play it with the song, you'll get the feel of it:

VERSE 1:

You know, sometimes, I don't know why

But this whole town just seems so hopeless

I ain't really sure but it seems I remember the good times

Were just a little bit more in focus

But when she puts her arms around me

I can somehow rise above it

Yeah man when I got that little girl standing right by my side

You know I can tell the whole wide world to shove it

CHORUS:

Hey here comes my girl Here comes my girl

F#m B (normal B chord)

Yeah and she looks so right She is all I need tonight

VERSE 2:

Every now and then I get down to the end of a day

I'll just have to stop, ask myself, "What've I done?"

It just seems so useless to have to work so hard

And nothin' ever really seem to come from it

And then she looks me in the eye, says, "We gonna last forever,"

And man, you know I can't begin to doubt it

No, because this feels so good and so free and so right

I know we ain't never goin' change our minds about it

CHORUS and then BREAK (see bottom)

VERSE 3:

Yeah every time it seems there ain't nothin' left no more

I find myself havin' to reach out and grab hold of somethin'

Yeah, I just catch myself wanderin', waitin', worryin'

About some silly little things that don't add up to nothin'

And then she looks me in the eye, says, "We gonna last forever,"

And man, you know I can't begin to doubt it

No, because this feels so good and so free and so right

I know we ain't never goin' change our minds about it

CHORUS then END

(the ending is just the first and last measures of the VERSE: A to B/A)

BREAK:

This break repeats three times, and the fourth time just

continues the same vamp on the E and A strings, to VERSE 3.

F#5 The numbers

E-------------------------------------0-| o on this

B------------------------0^2^0--------2-| F#5: | | | | | | chord diagram

G-------------------------------3-----3-| T | | | 1 | (and E9 below)

D----------------------------------4--4-| | | | 2 | | represent the

A-4--4--4-4-4-4-4--4--4---------------4-| | 3 4 | | | finger used.

E-2--2--2-2-2-2-2--2--2---------------2-| "T" means

Thumb.

The '^' means hammer on the first time, and pull off the second time.

When pulling off, sort of flick the B string so it rings clearly.

| | Use the E9: | | | 1 | |

| / / / / / / | "down/down/up/up/down/up" | 2 3 | | 4

| | strum. | | | | | |

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

Tom Petty - The Waiting

Chord Tab

EADGBe

G 320033 or 355433

G/F# 200033

Asus4 x02230 or x02233 or 577755

A x02220 or 577655

D xx0232

Bm xx4432 or 224432

Bar2 222222

INTRO: (Note: before hitting the G chord play the F# note on the low E

string. Walk the bass notes down and strum!)

VERSE 1

Oh, baby don't it feel like heaven right now

Don't it feel like something from a dream

Yeah, I've never nothing quite like this

Don't it feel like tonight might never be again

Baby, we know better than to try and pretend

Honey, no one could've ever told me about this

I said yeh, yeh, yeah yeah yeah yeah

CHORUS

The waiting is the hardest part

Every day you see one more card

You take it on faith, you take it to the heart

The waiting is the hardest part

VERSE 2

Well yeah I might've chased a couple women around

All it ever got me was down

Yeah, then there were those that made me feel good

But never as good as I feel right now

Baby you're the only one that's ever known how

to make me wanna live like I wanna live now

I said yeh, yeh, yeh yeh yeh yeh

CHORUS

The waiting is the hardest part

Every day you see one more yard

You take it on faith, you take it to the heart

The waiting is the hardest part

BRIDGE

Bm Bar2

Oh don't let 'em kill you babe

Bm Bar2

Don't let 'em get to you

Bm Bar2

Don't let 'em kill you babe

Bm Bar2

Don't let 'em get to you

I'll be your bleedin' heart

I'll be your cryin' fool

Don't let this go too far

Don't let it get to you

(Solo)

Yeh, yeh, yeh yeh yeh yeh

The waiting is the hardest part

Every day you see one more yard

You take it on faith, you take it to the heart

The waiting is the hardest part

The waiting is the hardest part

Tom Petty - You Got Lucky

Intro synth:

(Intro chords)

You better watch what you say

You better watch what you do to me

Don~t get carried away

Girl, if you can do better than me

Go

Yeah, go

But remember

Good love is hard to find

Good love is hard to find

You got lucky, babe

You got lucky, babe

(Intro chords)

When I found you

(Intro chords)

You put an end on my tear

And then you turn your eyes away

If you don~t feel complete

If I don~t take you all of the way

Then go,

Yeah, go,

But remember

Good love is hard to find

Good love is hard to find

You got lucky, babe

You got lucky, babe

(Intro chords)

When I found you

solo: (during the intro chords)

The (~) means to sustain the note, the (~~) means to sustain and keep it

warply tremoloed.

Yeah go,

Just, go,

But remember

Good love is hard to find

Good love is hard to find

You got lucky, babe

You got lucky, babe

(Intro chords)

When I found you

Final solo:

Tom Petty - Don't Come Around Here No More

Don't come around here no more 4 times

I don't feel you any more

you darken my door

whatever you're looking for

hey don't come around here no more

cause I've given up

I've given up

hey I've given up, you tangle my emotions

I've given up, honey please, yeah but it's over

don't come around here no more 4x

stop walking down my street

don't come around here no more

who did you expect to meet

don't come around here no more

whatever you're looking for

don't come around here no more

Tom Petty - I Won't Back Down

Well I won't back down, no I won't back down

You can stand me up at the gates of hell

But I won't back down

Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around

And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down

Gonna 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

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

Tom Petty - Runnin' Down A Dream

Signature Riff: (low E string with power E chord)

E:|--0--7--0--6--0--5--0--3--0---------------|

Verse1:

It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down

I had the radio on, I was drivin'

The trees went back, me and Del were singin'

Little Runaway, I was so blind

Yeah, Runnin' down a dream

Never would come to me

Workin' on a mystery

Goin' wherever it leads

Runnin' down a dream

Verse2:

I felt so good, like anything was possible

Hit cruise control, and rub my eyes

Last three days, the rain was unstoppable

(It) was always cold, no sunshine

Repeat Chorus

Break: It is just C (riff) D (riff) E (riff) Play 2X

Verse3:

I rolled on, the sky grew dark

I put the pedal down, to make some time

There's something good, waiting down this road

I'm pickin' up, whatever is mine

Repeat chorus 2X, then Break part, and add SOLO!

Tom Petty = Free Fallin'

Capo: 1st fret (all chords are in relation to the first fret)

The pattern is E Asus4 E Bsus/addE throughout the whole song (verses and refrain)

E 022100

Asus4 002200

Bsus/addE 224400

Lyrics:

She's a good girl, loves her mama

loves Jesus and America too

She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis

loves horses and her boyfriend too

It's a long day livin' in Reseda

there's a free-way runnin' through the yard

and I'm a bad boy, cause I don't even miss her

I'm a bad boy for breakin' her heart

Chorus:

And I'm free, I'm free fallin'

All the vampires walkin' through the valley

move west down Ventura Boulevard

And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows

All the good girls are home with broken hearts

Repeat Chorus

Do this little thing:

right before the backing vocals go "Free fallin, yeah I'm free fallin" twice

after the chorus right before the next verse.

I wanna glide down over Mulholland

I wanna write her name in the sky

I wanna free fall out into nothin'

Gonna leave this world for awhile

Chorus

Right before they do the chorus a second time, they play the chord forms as

barres:

Tom Petty - Learning To Fly

Guitar 1:

Guitar 2:

Tom Petty - Into The Great Wide Open

The intro and first few bars of the verse:

Intro Solo

Eddie waited till he finished high school

He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo

He met a girl out there with a tattoo too

The future was wide open.

They moved into a place they both could afford

He found a nightclub he could work at the door

She had a guitar and she taught him some chords

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.

Pre Verse 2 Riff

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.

Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance

Intro: Am (hammer on index finger) G D Am

She grew up in an Indiana town

Had a good lookin' mama who never was around

But she grew up tall and she grew up right

With them Indiana boys on an Indiana night

Well she moved down here at the age of 18

She blew the boys away, it was more than they'd seen

I was introduced and we both started groovin'

She said, "I dig you baby but I got to keep movin'"

...on, keep movin' on

Chorus:

Last dance with Mary Jane

One more time to kill the pain

I feel summer creepin' in and I'm

Tired of this town again

Well I don't know but I've been told

You never slow down, you never grow old

I'm tired of screwing up, I'm tired of bein' down

I'm tire of myself, I'm tired of this town

Oh my my, oh hell yes

Honey put on that party dress

Buy me a drink, sing me a song,

Take me as I come 'cause I can't stay long

Repeat chorus:

There's pidgeons down in Market Square

She's standin' in her underwear

Lookin' down from a hotel room

Nightfall will be comin' soon

Oh my my, oh hell yes

You've got to put on that party dress

It was too cold to cry when I woke up alone

I hit the last number, I walked to the road

Tom Petty - Something In The Air

Tuning.

Open E, EBEG#BE.

Chords.

E 000000

F#m7add4 220100

F# 222222

G#m7add4 442322

G# 444444

A#m7add4 664544

Call out the instigators

Because theres something in the air

Weve got to get together sooner or later

Because the revolutions here, and you know its...

G#|------0-------0-------0-------0----|

...right

G#|------0-------0-------0-------0----|

And you know that its right

We have got to get it together

We have got to get it together...

G#|------0-------0-------0-------0----|

...Now

G#|------0-------0-------0-------0----|

Lock up the streets and houses

Because theres something in the air

Weve got to get together sooner or later

Because the revolutions here, and you know its...

G#|----2-------2---------2-------2----|

...right

G#|----2-------2---------2-------2----|

And you know that its right

We have got to get it together

We have got to get it together...

Instrumental Section.

G#|-------------------|-------------------|

...Now

Hand out the arms and ammo

Were going to blast our way through here

Weve got to get together sooner or later

Because the revolutions here, and you know its...

G#|----4-------4---------4-------4----|

...right

G#|----4-------4---------4-------4----|

And you know that its right

We have got to get it together

We have got to get it together