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Money Becomes King

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Thomas Earl Petty (20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017) was an American musician, singer, composer and songwriter best known for fronting Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Apart from the band, he released three solo albums: "Full Moon Fever" (1989), "Wildflowers" (1994) and "Highway Companion" (2006).

After working with his early bands The Sundowners, The Epics, and Mudcrutch (which also included future Heartbreakers members Mike Campbell and Benmont

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MONEY BECOMES KING
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Written by: Tom Petty
From "The Last DJ" (2002)

[Intro]
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[Verse]
Gm C
If you reach back in your memory
Gm C
A little bell might ring
Gm C
'Bout a time that once existed
Gm C
When money wasn't king
Cm F
If you stretch your imagination
Cm F
I'll tell you all a tale
Bb F
About a time when everything
Bb F C
Wasn't up for sale

[Chorus]
Gm C
There was this cat named Johnny
F Bb
Who loved to play and sing
Bb F | Gm C | Gm C |
When money wasn't king

[Verse]
Gm C
We'd all get so excited
Gm C
When John would give a show
Gm C
We'd raise the cash between us
Gm C
And down the road we'd go
Cm F
To hear him play that music
Cm F
That spoke right to my soul
Bb F
Every verse a diamond
Bb F C
Every chorus gold

[Chorus]
Gm C
The sound was my salvation
F Bb
It was only everything
Bb F | Gm C | Gm C |
Before money became king

[Middle 8]
F C
Well I ain't sure how it happened
F C
And I don't know exactly when
F C
But everything got bigger
F C
And the rules began to bend
G Dm
And the TV taught the people
G Dm
How to get their hair to shine
G Dm
And how sweet life can be
G Dm
If you keep a tight behind
Am Dm
And they raised the cost of living
Am Dm
And how could we have known
Am Dm
They'd double the price of tickets
2/4 4/4
Am | Bb | Bb F | C |
To go see Johnny's show

[Chorus]
Gm C
So we hocked all our possessions
F Bb
And we sold a little dope
Bb F | Gm C | Gm C | Gm C | Gm C |
And went off to rock'n'roll

[Verse]
Gm C
We arrived there early
Gm C
In time to see rehearsal
Gm C
And John came out and lip-synched
Gm C
His new lite beer commercial
Cm F
And as the crowd arrived
Cm F
As far as I could see
Bb F
The faces were all different
Bb F C
There was no one there like me

[Verse]
Gm C
They sat in golden circles
Gm C
And waiters sevred them wine
Gm C
And talked through all the music
Gm C
And to John paid little mind
Cm F
And way up in the nosebleeds
Cm F
We watched him on the screen
Bb F
They'd hung between the billboards
Bb F C
So cheaper seats could see

[Middle 8]
F C
Johnny rocked that golden circle
F C
And all those VIPs
F C
And that music that had freed us
F C
Became a tired routine
G Dm
And I saw his face in close-up
G Dm
Trying to give it all he had
G Dm
And sometimes his eyes betrayed him
G Dm
You could see that he was sad
Am Dm
And I tried to rock on with him
Am Dm
But I slowly became bored
Am Dm
Could that man on stage with everything
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Am | Bb | Bb F | C |
Somehow need some more?

[Chorus] (variation)
Gm C
There was no use in pretending
F Bb
No magic left to hear
Gm C
All the music gave me
F Bb
Was a craving for lite beer
Gm C
As I walked out of the arena
F Bb
My ears began to ring
Bb F | Gm C | Gm C | Gm C | Gm C |
And money became king

[Coda]
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