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In reply to the discussion: Tom Petty "The Waiting" [View all]
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
3. Last Dance is my 2nd fave Petty song after Here Comes My Girl ... 3rd is Don't Come Around Here ...
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 05:11 PM
Aug 2018

Mike Campbell is a guitar god ...

Going okay so far, looking forward to watchin' my Raiders here in a few hours ... got a nice Bulleit Bourbon on the rocks going, and some chicken thighs marinatin' in citrus, spices and cilantro since last night, gonna grill me up some fajitas on the Weber (charcoal, of course) in a few hours.

Yourself?

BTW, I always thought of this an 'alternative version' of Last Dance ... an equally great track, and for sure one of my top 5 Steve songs ...



I went down to Taneytown
I went down to Taneytown
To see what I could see

Mama told me never go
But I'm damn near twenty two years old
Sometimes I feel this holler swallow me

She went off to Gettysburg
Went off with that new beau of hers
I snuck off after dark

It's a long way down the county road
The stars were bright and the moon was low
Down to where the blacktop highway starts

I went down to Taneytown
I went down to Taneytown
I went down to see what I could see

Now everybody stared at me
You'd think that they ain't never seen
A colored boy before

Well they chunked at me and called me names
They'd have whupped me sure but the sheriff came
I slipped off ran through the dry goods store

I ran down Division Street
Some of them boys followed me
Down to the railroad track

There's four of them and I can't fight
But I got my old Randall knife
I cut that boy and I never did look back

I went down to Taneytown
I went down to Taneytown
I went down to see what I could see

Cross the fields and woods I run
Like a bullet from a rabbit gun
Back home to my bed

Now Mama come in from Gettysburg
Her and that new beau of hers
"Boy you look like hell" 'sall she said

A month went by without a word
Somebody down the holler heard
About that boy they hung

He begged those men to spare his life
But I dropped my bloody Randall knife
He picked it up so they thought he was the one, yeah

I went down to Taneytown
I went down to Taneytown
I ain't goin' back 'ere ... anymore

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Tom Petty "The Waiting" [View all] Crutchez_CuiBono Aug 2018 OP
It IS the hardest part ... mr_lebowski Aug 2018 #1
So true buddy. Crutchez_CuiBono Aug 2018 #2
Last Dance is my 2nd fave Petty song after Here Comes My Girl ... 3rd is Don't Come Around Here ... mr_lebowski Aug 2018 #3
That sounds really cool. Crutchez_CuiBono Aug 2018 #4
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