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Chords and lyrics for Money Becomes King by Tom Petty
Intro:
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F
C
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If you
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reac
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h back in your memory
a
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little
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bell might ring
‘
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bou
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t a time that once existed
when
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money
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wasn’t
king
i
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f you s
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treech your imagination
i’ll
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tell
y
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ou all a tale
a
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bout
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a time when everything
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wasn’t
C
up for
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sale
there
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was
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this cat named johnny
who
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loved to
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play and sing
when
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money
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was
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n’t
king
we’d
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all
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get so excited when
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joh
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n would do a show
we’d
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raise
t
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he cash between us
and
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down the r
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oad we’d go
to
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hear him
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play that music
it
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spoke
ri
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ght to my soul
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every
ve
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rse a diamond
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every
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chorus
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gold
the
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soun
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d was my salvation
w
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ell
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i ain’t sure how it happend
a
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nd
i
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don’t know exactly when
but e
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verythi
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ng got bigger
a
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nd
E
the rules began to bend
a
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nd
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the tv taught the people
h
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ow
to
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get their hair to shine
and h
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ow sweet l
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ife can be
i
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f you k
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eep a tight behind
an
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d they
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raised the cost of living
and
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how could
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we have known
t
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hey’d
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double the price of tickets
to
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go see
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johnny’s
show
s
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o we ho
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cked all our possesions
a
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nd we s
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old a little dope
an
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d
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wen
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t off to rock and roll
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we
a
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rrived there early
in
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tim
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e to see rehearsal
and
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john
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came out and lip-synched
his
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new
l
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ite beer commercial
and
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as
t
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he crowd arrived
as
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far
a
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s i could see
the
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faces
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were all different
ther
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e
wa
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s no o
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ne there like me
they
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sat
in
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golden
circles
and w
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aite
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rs sevred them wine
and
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talked
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through all the music
a
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nd
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to john paid little mind
and
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way
u
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p in the nosebleeds
we
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watched
h
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im on the screen
t
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hey
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‘d hung between the billboards
so
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cheap
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er
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seats could see
j
A
ohnny
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rocked that golden circle
and
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all
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those
vip’s
an
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d
tha
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t music thast had saved us
beca
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me
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a tired routine
a
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nd
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i saw his face in close-up
tryi
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ng
t
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o give it all he had
a
A
nd
so
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metimes his eyes betrayed him
you
A
could
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see that he was sad
a
F
nd
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i tried to rock on with him
b
F
ut i sl
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owly became bored
coul
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d that man on stage
with
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everything
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someh
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ow need some more?
th
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ere was n
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o use in pretending
no m
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agic
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left to hear
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all the
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music gave me
was a
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cra
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ving for lite beer
as i
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walk
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ed out of the arena
my
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ears
G
began to ring
and
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mone
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y
b
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ecame
king
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(big end)F
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