“A Thing About You” by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Written by Tom Petty

From the album “Hard Promises”

MCA, 1981

Transcribed by Kevin Ross ([email protected])

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Intro: A

 

A
I'm not much on mystery
          F#m

Yeah you gotta be careful what you dream

A
I thought this might pass with time
    F#m

Yeah I thought I was satisfied

Chorus

        E
But oh baby let me tell you, I got a thing about you

Baby let me tell you, I got a thing about you
           D

It don't matter what you say

It don't matter what you do

F#m              E          A
I, I, I, got a thing about you

D     F#m        E          A

I, I, I, got a thing about you

Somewhere deep in the middle of the night
Lovers hold each other tight
Whisper in their anxious ears
Words of love that disappear

(Repeat Chorus)

      D               G                  A
Baby you hold some strange control over me

     D                G          A
Yeah it's so wild it hypnotizes me

            E

Yeah yeah yeah

           D

Yeah yeah yeah

 

INSTRUMENTAL on VERSE

(Repeat Chorus)

                   G    D     A

Got a thing about you

 

 

(ad-lib to fade, stay on A)