Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – All The Wrong Reasons (Guitar)

Capo 1
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From "Into the Great Wide Open" (1991) Like other Jeff Lynne productions, this song has a mass of 6 and 12 string acoustic guitars strumming away in different capo positions. The prominent suspensions everywhere lead me to suspect Tom played in E with a capo on 1st, as with FREE FALLIN'. The intro riff sounds like a Rickenbacker 12 playing without a capo and doubled by an acoustic 12, perhaps capoed on the third. Here's a way to play that riff in E. ------------------------------------------------------------- [intro riff]
E|-----------------------|--------------------|
B|-----------------------|--------------------|
G|-----1-2-4-2-1-------1-|-----1-2-4-2-1------|
D|-2-4-----------4-2-4---|-2-4-----------4-2--|
A|-----------------------|--------------------|
E|-----------------------|--------------------|
[verse]
  E          A2       B4         E
Trouble blew in on a cold, dark wind,

E           A2      B4 E
it came without no warning.

E                 A2        B4      E
And that big ol' house went up for sale,

E                 A2      B4 E
they were on the road by morning.
[refrain]
E A2      B4        E               A2      B4 E
Oh,  the days went slow, into the changing season,

E A2     B4      E                 A2   B4 E
Oh,  out in the cold for all the wrong reasons.
[Verse 2]
E                  A2            B4     E
Well, she grew up hard and she grew up fast,

E              A2  B4 E
In the age of television.

E               A2     B4     E
And she made a vow to have it all,

E             A2     B4 E
It became her new religion.
[refrain]
E A2      B4      E              A2       B4 E
Oh,  down in her soul, it was an act of treason,

E A2  B4       E                A2   B4 E
Oh,  down they go for all the wrong reasons
riff [Verse 3]
E                A2          B4    E
Where the sky begins, the horizon ends,

E            A2     B4  E
despite the best intentions.

E             A2       B4      E
And a big old man goes up for sale,

E              A2     B4  E
He becomes his own invention.
[refrain]
E A2      B4       E             A2      B4 E
Oh,  the days go slow into the changing season,

E A2    B4       E                 A2   B4 E
Oh,  bought and sold for all the wrong reasons,
[Outro]
E A2  B4       E                A2   B4 E
Oh,  down they go for all the wrong reasons.
------------------------------------------ intro riff in open (F chord) position:
E|----------------------|------------------|
B|---------1------------|---------1--------|
G|---0-2-3---3-2-0---0-2|---0-2-3---3-2-0--|
D|-3--------------3-----|-3--------------3-|
A|----------------------|------------------|
E|----------------------|------------------|
intro riff in D (Capo 3):
E|-------------------------|----------------------|
B|-------------------------|----------------------|
G|-------0-0H2-0-----------|-------0-0H2-0--------|
D|-0-2-4---------4-2-0-2-4-|-0-2-4---------4-2-0--|
A|-------------------------|----------------------|
E|-------------------------|----------------------|