Into The Great Wide Open tab by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)



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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