Thomas Earl Petty (born 20 October 1950 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American musician. Petty is a graduate of Gainesville High School. Petty did not have any musical aspirations before Elvis Presley visited his hometown. After working with his early bands The Sundowners, The Epics, and Mudcrutch (which also included future Heartbreakers members Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench) he began his recording career with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers when the band broke onto the national music scene with their 1976 self-titled debut album. Still, it took America a full year to catch up to the album.
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Down South Lyrics
Tom Petty
headed back down south
gonna see my daddy's mistress
gonna buy back her forgivness
pay off every witness
One more time down south
sell the family headstones
drag a bag of dry bones
make good on my back loans
so if i come to your door
let me sleep on your floor
i'll give you all i have
and a little more
sleep late down south
look up my former mentors
live off yankee winters
be a landlord and a renter
create myself down south
impress all the women
pretend i'm samuel clemens
wear seersucker and white linens
so if i come to your door
let me sleep on your floor
i'll give you all i have
and a little more
spanish moss down south
spirits cross the dead fields
mosquitoes hit the windshield
all document remain sealed
so if i come to your door
let me sleep on your floor
i'll give you all i have
and a little more
i'll give you all i have
and a little more