Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Gods Gift To Man (Guitar)

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A x0222x G/A x0000x [Intro] A G/A A G x8 [Verse]
        A
Well I met him in the navy

A
He was the head of the class

           A
She was a cute little thing

A
He liked the way she shook her glass

          D
And they went off to Texas

D
And they bought some land yeah

           A
And they settled in a hobo

A
Home by a taco stand

        E
He was doin' things he didn't understand

          D
There was no way to exlain it

                          A G/A A G
She was God's gift to man
[Verse]
         A
Well he got a promotion

         A
And he bought himself a color tv

         A
Had the cable put in

           A
And they watched a round of Jeopardy

          D
And they sat out in the evening

           D
And they watched the sun go down

        A
And everything they did

            A
They were livin' on the outside of town

          E
Well the time went by

         E
That he didn't understand

         D                A G/A A G
She was God's gift to man
[Bridge]
D
Yeah baby tell me tell me real good

                                                         E
Don't you know that we're livin' just like a young boy should?
[Interlude] A G/A A G x8 [Verse]
A
Well she went off to houston

A
Where she was livin' in sin

          A
Well he built an office building

      A
But nobody moved in

      D
She wound up in El Paso

         D
On the streets again

        A
It was hard to take it

        A
But sometimes you just can't win

         E
It was after a little way

         E
That he didn't understand

       D
And couldn't understand that

                          A G/A A G
She was God's gift to man
[Verse]
        A
Well I seen her on tv just a couple of nights ago

           A
She was a doin' a commercial

A
Smilin' with some ivory soap

        D
Well I knew inside her heart was black as coal

            A
There ain't no way to replace the amount of lovin' that little girl stole

              E
Yeah one day she got it comin'

                               D
And she won't understand her niche

                        A G/A A G
She's God's gift to man
[Outro]
                E
Yeah I've been doin' things that I don't understand

            D
Yeah she's God's gift to man

A
Yeah, yeah, yeah

A
Alright, alright, alright