Into The Great Wide Open

Petty Tom

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Eddie waited till he finished high school
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He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo
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He met a girl out there with a tattoo too
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The future was wide open.
 
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They moved into a place they both could afford 
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He found a nightclub he could work at the door
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She had a guitar and she taught him some chords
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The sky was the limit.
 
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  Into the great wide open, under them skies of blue
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  Out in the great wide open, a rebel without a clue.
 
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The papers said Ed always played from the heart
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He got an agent and a roadie named Bart
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They made a record and it went in the charts
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The sky was the limit.
 
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His leather jacket had chains that would jingle
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They both met movie stars, partied and mingled.
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Their A&R man said "I don't hear a single."
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The future was wide open.
 
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  Into the great wide open, under them skies of blue
  G          C          D        G        F     Em     A
  Out in the great wide open, a rebel without a clue.
 
  G        C          D      G          Em       D     Am
  Into the great wide open, under them skies of blue
  G          C          D        G        F     Em     A
  Out in the great wide open, a rebel without a clue.
 
final flourish: G C G   G C G.
 
 
Em+7  021000    Em7   022010
Em6   022020    Am/G  022010