Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – A One Story Town (Guitar)

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(words & music by Tom Petty) The intro is: B5* (the bass occasionally plays an A and hammers on a B note, you can hear it in the song). The intro riff is:

e|-----------|------------------|
B|-----------|---------------7--|
G|-9--8h9p8--|-----9--8---------|
D|-----------|-7----------9-----|
A|-----------|------------------|
E|-----------|------------------|

      F#5
Yeah, I~ve been standing up

E5
I~ve been breaking free

  F#5                    E5           B5*
I don~t want fate handed down to me

      F#5
Yeah, I~ve been moving on

E5
Try another town

F#5
Times ain~t changin~ nothing

E5                   B5*
Take a look around

    D5        A5        G5
I~m lost in a one story town

      D5           A5           G5
Where everything~s close to the ground

      G5             A5
Yeah, same shit goes down

G5            A5
Nothing turns around

       G5  A5      B5*
It~s a one story town

She was over seventeen when I held her to her word Had to push her luck Thought she couldn~t breathe No it didn~t hurt me when she had to leave She had a far away feeling Wasn~t part of me I~m lost in a one story town Where everything~s close to the ground Yeah, same shit goes down Nothing turns around It~s a one story town Instrumental: A5, A5, A5....B5 Yeah, I~m lost in a one story town Where everything~s close to the ground Yeah, same shit goes down Nothing turns around It~s a one story town Ending: B5* Those high guitar parts for the chorus are: X Y

e|-----17--14---------|-5h7p5----------8h10p8-|
B|-15----------15-----|-----------------------|
G|-----------------16-|-----------------------|
D|--------------------|-----------------------|
A|--------------------|-----------------------|
E|--------------------|-----------------------|

-X- is played sometimes during the first half of the chorus and -Y- is played after that part where Petty sings -same shit goes down-. Oh yeah! For the instrumental Mike's guitar just plays:

A -10--12--|
E ---------|

And that's about it.