One Story Town

One Story Town 
	(words & music by Tom Petty) 
 
 
The intro is:  B5* (the bass occasionally plays an A and hammers on a B note, 
you can hear it in the song). 
 
The intro riff is: 
 
E -----------|------------------|| 
B -----------|---------------7--|| 
G -9--8h9p8--|-----9--8---------|| 
D -----------|-7----------9-----|| 
A -----------|------------------|| 
E -----------|------------------|| 
 
 
Please escuse the vulgar misinterpretations of the lyrics: 
 
 
      F#5 
Yeah, I~ve been standing up 
E5 
I~ve been breaking free 
  F#5                    E5           B5* 
I don~t want fate handed down to me 
      F#5 
Yeah, I~ve been moving on 
E5 
Try another town 
F#5 
Times ain~t changin~ nothing 
E5                   B5* 
Take a look around 
 
    D5        A5        G5 
I~m lost in a one story town 
      D5           A5           G5 
Where everything~s close to the ground 
      G5             A5 
Yeah, same shit goes down 
G5            A5 
Nothing turns around 
       G5  A5      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 -----17--14---------|-5h7p5----------8h10p8-| 
B -15----------15-----|-----------------------| 
G -----------------16-|-----------------------| 
D --------------------|-----------------------| 
A --------------------|-----------------------| 
E --------------------|-----------------------| 
 
 
-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 -10--12-- 
E --------- 
 
And that's about it.