Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Southern Accents (Guitar)

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[Intro] F [Verse]
           Dm  C     F          Dm  C    F
There’s a southern accent, where I come from

    Dm         C        F
The young’uns call it country

     Bb              C
The Yankees call it dumb

         Dm   C      F
I got my own way of talkin’

      Bb           C            Dm  C    Bb
But everything is done, with a southern accent

    Bbsus2         F
Where I come from
[Verse]
          Dm        C     F
Now that drunk tank in Atlanta’s

       Dm     C      F
Just a motel room to me

        Dm        C      F
Think I might go work Orlando

          Bb                  C
If them orange groves don’t freeze

         Dm  C      F
I got my own way of workin’

      Bb           C           Dm  C    Bb
But everything is run, with a southern accent

    Bbsus2         F
Where I come from
[Bridge]
Bb                      Dm
For just a minute there I was dreaming

Bb                       Dm
For just a minute it was all so real

G                           C        F         Bb   F
For just a minute she was standing there, with me
[Verse]
          Dm    C      F
There’s a dream I keep having

      Dm      C        F
Where my mama comes to me

    Dm          C             F
And kneels down over by the window

     Bb               C
And says a prayer for me

         Dm  C        F
I got my own way of prayin’

      Bb        C
But everyone’s begun

        Dm  C    Bb
With a southern accent

    Bbsus2         F
Where I come from
[Interlude] Dm C F Dm C F Dm C F Bb C [Outro]
         Dm   C      F
I got my own way of livin’

     Bb              C
But everything gets done

        Dm  C    Bb
With a southern accent

    Bbsus2         F
Where I come from