A One Story Town tab by Tom Petty

Tabs

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)


One Story Town
    (words & music by Tom Petty)


The intro is: B5* (the bass occasionally plays an A augmentedA and hammers on a BB note,
you can hear it in the song).

The intro riff is:

E MajorE -----------|------------------||
BB -----------|---------------7--||
G+G -9--8h9p8--|-----9--8---------||
D MajorD -----------|-7----------9-----||
A augmentedA -----------|------------------||
E MajorE -----------|------------------||

Please escuse the vulgar misinterpretations of the lyrics:


   F#5F#5
Yeah, I~ve been standing up
E5E5
I~ve been breaking free
 F#5F#5          E5E5      B5*
I don~t want fate handed down to me
   F#5F#5
Yeah, I~ve been moving on
E5E5
Try another town
F#5F#5
Times ain~t changin~ nothing
E5E5          B5*
Take a look around

  D5D5    A5A5    G5G5
I~m lost in a one story town
   D5D5      A5A5      G5G5
Where everything~s close to the ground
   G5G5       A5A5
Yeah, same shit goes down
G5G5      A5A5
Nothing turns around
    G5G5 A5A5   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 MajorE -----17--14---------|-5h7p5----------8h10p8-|
BB -15----------15-----|-----------------------|
G+G -----------------16-|-----------------------|
D MajorD --------------------|-----------------------|
A augmentedA --------------------|-----------------------|
E MajorE --------------------|-----------------------|


-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-.

I hope this has been help towards you.


Oh yeah! For the instrumental Mike's guitar just plays:

A augmentedA -10--12--
E MajorE ---------

And that's about it.

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