Mary Jane’s Last Dance | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: Am G | (Dsus2) D Am |
| Am7 G | (Dsus2) D Am :||
Verse 1
||: Am G | (Dsus2) D Am :||
She grew up in an Indiana town,
had a good-lookin’ mama who never was around.
But she grew up tall and she grew up right,
with them Indiana boys on an Indiana night.
Instrumental 1
| Am G | (Dsus2) D Am |
Woo oh-oh-ooh.
| Am7 G | (Dsus2) D Am |
Woo oh-oh-ooh.
Verse 2
||: Am G | (Dsus2) D Am :||
Well, she moved down here at the age of eighteen,
she blew the boys away, it was more than they’d seen.
I was introduced and we both started groovin’,
she said, “I dig you, baby, but I got to keep movin’.
Instrumental 2
| Am7 G | (Dsus2) D Am |
On, keep movin’ on
| Am G | (Dsus2) D Am |
Chorus 1
| Em | Em7 | A (A6) | A (A6) |
Last dance with Mary Jane, one more time to kill the pain.
| Em | Em7 | A (A6) | G |
I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m tired of this town again.
Instrumental 3
| Am G | (Dsus2) D Am |
Woo oh-oh-ooh.
| Am7 G | (Dsus2) D Am |
Woo oh-oh-ooh.
Verse 3
||: Am G | (Dsus2) D Am :||
Well, I don’t know but I’ve been told,
you never slow down, you never grow old.
I’m tired of screwing up, tired of goin’ down,
tired of myself, tired of this town.
Oh, my, my, oh, hell yes,
honey, put on that party dress.
Buy me a drink, sing me a song,
take me as I come ’cause I can’t stay long.
Chorus 1
| Em | Em7 | A (A6) | A (A6) |
Last dance with Mary Jane, one more time to kill the pain.
| Em | Em7 | A (A6) | G |
I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m tired of this town again.
Solo
||: Am G | (Dsus2) D Am |
| Am7 G | (Dsus2) D Am :||
Verse 4
||: Am G | (Dsus2) D Am :||
There’s pigeons down on Market Square,
she’s standin’ in her underwear.
Lookin’ down from a hotel room,
the nightfall will be comin’ soon.
Oh, my, my, oh, hell yes,
you’ve got to put on that party dress.
It was too cold to cry when I woke up alone,
I hit the last number, I walked to the road.
Chorus 1
| Em | Em7 | A (A6) | A (A6) |
Last dance with Mary Jane, one more time to kill the pain.
| Em | Em7 | A (A6) | G |
I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m tired of this town again.
Outro
||: Am G | (Dsus2) D Am |
| Am7 G | (Dsus2) D Am :|| to fade
Mary Jane’s Last Dance chords and TAB
When Tom Petty released his Greatest Hits album, where we find Mary Jane’s Last Dance as the only new tune, it was 1993 and the Heartbreakers had briefly united. As a band, this was their last big tune.
To play along with Tom and the boys, you need to first tune your guitar up 10 Hz, use my online guitar tuner to achieve this, set it to 450 Hz.
Start off by playing this progression for the intro and verse, using open-position chords.
||: Am G | D Am :||
Mary Jane’s Last Dance chorus chords start on chord VI, like this:
||: Em | Em7 | A (A6) |1. A (A6) :||2. G |
The A6 in brackets indicates that when playing licks over this chord, use the 6th interval, for a full scale, try the A Major Pentatonic.
After playing along for a while, you’ll realize that there are little intricate flourishes that Tom and Mike play and since there are two guitars, they overlap. This is going to be a problem if you’re the only guitar player in the band.
What you’ll have to do is create one guitar part that sums the two guitars up, here’s what I came up with.
Start with learning this, then vary it by playing less during the verse, for example, don’t play the Am7. Also, the initial Am is often not hammer-on to.
Still, start with the TAB above, once you get into it, you’ll discover lots of little variation in that chord riff.
Mary Jane’s Last Dance chords | Related pages
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- Come Together chords
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- The Joker chords
- Into The Great Wide Open chords
- Man On The Moon chords
Tom Petty
Tom Petty released most of his albums with his band The Heartbreakers although some solo material appeared as well.
His best-known tunes include American Girl, Free Fallin’, Learning To Fly, Into The Great Wide Open, Don’t Come Around Here No More, and I Won’t Back Down.
Tom Petty on the web
