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Petty, Tom Saving Grace Chords Guitar Tab

Saving Grace                                                                                  Tom Petty
intro: E
E
I’m passing sleeping cities
Fading by degrees
Not believing all I see to be so
E
I’m fly’in over backyards
Country homes and ranches
Watching life between the branches below
A
And it’s hard to say
Who you are these days
But you run on anyway
E
Don’t you baby?
G
You keep running for another place
D E E
To find that saving grace

E
I’m moving on alone
over ground that no one owns
Past statues that atone for my sins
There’s a guard on every door
And a drink on every floor
Overflowing with a thousand amens

A
And it’s hard to say
Who you are these days
But you run on anyway
E
Don’t you baby?

G
You keep running for another place
D E
To find that saving grace
E
Don’t you baby?

Riff:
E B A G E B A G E B A G A
Oh,
E B A G E B A G E B A G A B

E
You’re rolling up the carpet
Of your fathers two-room mansion
No headroom for expansion no more
And there’s a corner of the floor
They’re telling you is yours
You’re confident but not really sure

A
And it’s hard to say
Who you are these days
But you run on anyway
E
Don’t you baby?

G
You keep running for another place
D E E
To find that saving grace

Don’t you baby?

G
You keep running for another place
D E E
To find that saving grace

Don’t you baby?



E B A G E B A G E B A G E…….


Every E chord is played with hand muffled.
All others are played with easy strum.

Source: http://www.guitarmasta.net/p/petty,_tom/371539.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
 
 
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DemolitionLover
Wanna Be
#1 by DemolitionLover ^^v^^ at Oct 1, 2007 at 2:42 PM EST
On an album entitled "Highway Companion" this song fits perfectly. Petty, one of the best storytellers, puts you in the passenger seat as he drives cross country. Great driving song.
 
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Ryan
Wanna Be
#2 by Ryan Carter at Oct 2, 2007 at 4:17 PM EST
I guess this is a song about driving along the road at night. Having the road to yourself and thinking about the act of traveling. The "you" in the song seems to be using travel as a way to avoid things. "it's hard to say" who the person is because he or she won't settle down and establish a life. They feel stifled by normal life in the "two-room mansion," so they run away from it. It seems like they're looking for something (the saving grace, whatever that might be-- and they keep going to the next place without ever finding it.
 
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Ben
Rhythm Player
#3 by Ben at Oct 5, 2007 at 3:22 AM EST
philmelin, I agree. "You keep running for another place To find that saving grace" Maybe hes talking about people (or a particular person) waiting for heaven. "I’m moving on alone over ground that no one owns Past statues that atone for my sins There’s a guard on every door And a drink on every floor Overflowing with a thousand amens" He's "alone", maybe he content without religion. "Statues" maybe churches. "Drinks" and "amens" maybe hypocrisy. Just my thoughts.
 
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Rebecca
Average
#4 by Rebecca Lira at Oct 17, 2007 at 12:52 PM EST
Well, with all the songs out there, it's impossible to write something that doesn't sound a bit like something that someone else wrote....beats doing other peoples covers.