This isn't a cover, this is all petty!! Petty: "That may be my favorite among my songs - just in terms of a piece of pure writing. I remember writing it very vividly. It was in the middle of the night and I was playing it on the piano at home in Encino. I was just singing into my cassette recorder and suddenly these words came out. I was at the point in my career where I was very much trying to find some new ground....so no, not a cover.. :)
A relative in his mid 40's recently died and this was played at his funeral I have to admit that I had never this song previously but it has a haunting air to it.
It gives me goosebumps and also makes me want to cry when he sings "There's a dream I keep having where my mama comes to me. She kneels down by the window and says a prayer for me."
My fav Tom Petty song! It's been become my personal anthem since moving to Indiana. This song taught me to be proud of where I come from, my individuality, and my southern accent!
Johnny Cash said that this should be the southern anthem and I tend to agree,being born here and will never leave again until the bury me under a cypress tree.Everything here is done with a southern accent ya dont like it leave it and we don't give a damn how ya did it in up there.
''A SOUTHERN PRAYER''.. LETS ALL PRAY TOGETHER FOR THE PEOPLE IN MISS. BAMA, GEORGIA, TENN, AND THE CAROLINAS, IT WAS A SAD DAY IN THE SOUTH YESTERDAY, LORD HELP THE ONES THAT LOST THEIR LOVE ONES, WHAT A TRAGEDY IT WAS... PEACE AND LOVE FROM THE PEOPLE IN CENTRAL FLA.
Rofl this reminds me of history class. Whether you like it or not we are all united get over it. The "Yankees" aren't causing you any harm. You country bumpkins ahahha.
be proud of wherem you are from no matter where you are from...just because someone sounds and look different than you don't mean nothing there are good folks out ther from all over the world...people are people no matter where they live
I speak , act , work and walk with a southern accent. And believe or not that drunk tank in Atlanta was a free motel room. And I worked them orange groves in Pasco Co.,Fla.,when the orange groves froze. My little girl was 10 months old and I was still wild as a stallion. Bury my bones under a cypress tree!!!!
This is expression at its highest, seldom attained. The line 'where I come from' is intensified with each new turn, as crying is intensified toward a crescendo. Even the 'Oh' at 3:47 is organically connected to the rest of the song. Incredible.
The line about the mother is heart-rending. What vulnerability! What honesty.
This is absolutely one of my favorite songs, Moves me to tears everytime I hear it. I was at 2 of his Mojo shows this year praying he would play it, but it wasn't, maybe bc it was NY. I was born in NY but I am half Georgia Peach, so this hits home for me.
For just a minute there I was dreaming, For just a minute it was all so real, For just a minute she was standing there...with me. Makes me think of my Step-Mother that I truly miss everyday, and when I dream of her at night. <3 AB <3
Awesome song, regards to the south. With a voice like that he has to have blood from Gods country. Cymru am byth.( Wales For Ever.) An older version of 'The South will rise again'!
New york is not all city! ive lived in ny all my life, never have even been to the city!!! Theres a place called upstate ny! Which is COUNTRY!!!! PROUD TO BE A YANK!!!
Beautiful song! I'm a Southern girl....born, bred, and raised in Alabama. I'm married to a Yankee transplant, turned Southern boy and he loves the south as much as I do.
I lived in Ca. most of my life, moved to SE Mo. 10 years ago and there is a difference in lifestyle and demeanor. Not all of it is positive but at 47 I sure appreciate slowin down and just appreciating life.
I love this song. I'm a transplanted yankee 45 years ago. Lived in Gainesville when Petty became famous. Still a Floridian. Wish I could've seen the Gainesville boy when he played there in Gainesville! Saw him play in Daytona a few years back. He's an original. He'll always be great.
alright will all the southerners stop saying shit about the north thats not true and vice versa. An accent is a way of speaking, not a way to determine if someones dumb or a redneck. And for the generalizations of the north: it is NOT all city and rude people. We may live a faster lifestyle but most people are very friendly and trust me go to the vast rural areas up here and youll see why you dont have to be from the south to be redneck.
A stately venerable sound on this song, or so it seems to me. I am a Northern Canadian (really north!) and am engaged to a lady in Texas. When we have her family over for dinner they all hold hands and say a blessing, just like how Tom describes it in his song. Yes they say 'Y'all' and many other Southern things and I love her for it. Her whole family has shown me extraordinary hospitaity and gives a very good image for Americans.
The pronoun "y'all" is not really a southern thing anymore. On the top 10 search results, I got a hit from a Bostonian, an Arizonian, even Australian (no, not that other "south") Kylie Minogue uses that term. But what bugs me most is a blogger from the New York Daily News who blogs for the YANKEES! (Live blogging, y'all) Really the "true south" is gone with the wind! The "liberal gap" between the other regions is closing. The southern accent is dwindling thanks to mass media as well!
Yeah this is all about accents. That's it. Fuck. I'll take Queen's English any day over this. Petty is great but if you drive 500 miles in any direction, the English you hear sounds like SHIT. But good on you, Tom!
@FairlyGrrl "queens english" reffering to old english i guess...well you do realize that the "southern accent" sounds more like "old english" though right? :P
@lightmyfir3 when you say that do u mean everyone from the us or just people from the north because to people that dont live here a yankee is an american. I bet you have never been to the north, people from the south think its all solid city when in places like upstate new york, pennsylvania and new england have gorgeous country sides.
@brownrider56 are you talking to me or this other guy cause im not the one generalizing...if people from the south saw some of the beautiful places up here that arent solid city than maybe the South/North division would lessen.
I listen to just about everything when it comes to music, but when I listen to Petty he's always blown me away with true life stories...im 28 years old and hes by far my favorite musician of all time, keeps it fairly simple, and keeps your head up in the game of life :)
Tom's right - if we are born and raised Southern, everything we do has a Southern accent. Southern is a way of thinking and a way of life, and we take our values and strengths (think Steel Magnolias) everywhere we go.
@PAGAN19 It's more a SONG. That goes on a RECORD. That makes MONEY. I've been to your 'part' of the world. I wouldn't give you two bob for it. You keep it, PWT.
I was a family friend for many years . I know Tom was thinking of Kitty( his mom ) and Earl (his dad ) when he sang this . Both are now deceased . Tom was very good to his parents .
I've been listening to Tom Petty since 1977. He's as good today as he was back then. I have two sons that went to UF in Gainesville so that makes Tom Petty's music more special.
My god, I´ve listened to Tom petty since I was eight, Im fiftheen now, but not until today I´ve actually found out how good this song is:) I have to listen to it once more!
Just for the record, I'm a New England yankee from an old yankee family. I've probably spent one month total in the south in my whole life. I don't make fun of anyone's accent because every accent is beautiful in its own way.
And I just adore this song. It's about roots, being proud of your roots, proud of who you are. Universal. Timeless.
@artichoke25 yea i am from alabama (south america) and i love ur accents there soooooo cool i aint never herd noe of ur accents untile my uncle came and met me he is from england.
@artichoke25 I'm a strange product. In 1605 the wealthy patriarch of my family arrived on the first ship to New Haven and served as a magistrate and deacon in both New Haven and New Jersey while continually expanding his family and his fortune. However somewhere along the line some foolish ancestor of mine named Job moved down to Charlotte in the midst of the Civil War and after all of that nonsense here I am in Georgia mixed with that bloodline and Southern gentry, and defected Russo nobility.
@artichoke25 Your words are like Donne's. "Therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." The bell tolls for all of us, Yankee and Cracker, Cracker like me.
perhaps the most UNDERRATED tom petty song. i fell in love with this song when the record came out and i was just a kid at the time. i play it as a jobbing musician in my act from time to time. many folks are surprised to learn that its a tom petty tune.
Yankees are technically anyone from the North (above Virginia) but its a derogatory term for people from New York and New England ("Damn Yankees") but in Europe it just means American, which is funny because a Southerner would take offense to it.
@briansane I read somewhere that a 'yankee' to the World at large is from the USA and in the USA a 'yankee' is from up north. In the north a 'yankee' is from New England and in New England a 'yankee' is from Vermont. In Vermont a 'yankee' is someone that eats pie for breakfast.
Amazing! Some of these comments! I'll choose political correctness, fairness, goodness over hatred, bigotry, discrimination anyday(and i was born and raised in the south). I don't care who has these qualities--that's the truth. You will never progress if you are proud of the negative southern past and habits. Start by choosing the way you talk! Not yankeee not southern just you!
i was born in new york and i moved down south at 18. 14 yrs ago. i was amazed how nice every one was too me. so laid back and fun. when i got back up north everyone made fun of my southern accent. nobody down south made fun of my northern one! nuff said.
All one can do is sigh! It's hard to describe what these people have meant to me musically through the years. Mr.Petty himself is of course "the crush of my life" but he really needs the others too! We are all depending on the people around us, fortunately.
Southern accents and Southern ways - wherever I live I will never stop being Southern. If it sets us apart, so be it and y'all can just envy us. My heritage kicks ass.This song is my very heart and soul.
A heartbreaking, breathtaking interpretation I once heard is this line foreshadows the reference to a deceased mother in the next stanza. If so, Tom Petty is an even greater poet than I already believed.
I mostly listen to Southern rap but I like all kinds of music...and I LOVE this song! It almost brings tears to my eyes...I love Florida and the South!
Johnny Cash covered this song on his "Unchained" album, which Tom & The Heartbreakers was the backup band on. This is a song Tom wrote in the 80's sometime before The Traveling Wilburys.
southern..god love us or for no one else will..We do things a wee bit different than anybody else..but it is where we come from..bentmont tench is the glue what holds tom and the boys together...amen
It's OK if no one else loves us if we've God on our side. Don't get any bigger & badder than God :)
Mother has callouses on her knees.Praying for her only son. I can attest if not for asking & receiving God's help. I don't think he'd be alive today. He's Southern to the bone, & all that entails, good & bad :)
Yes, we do things a wee bit different than anybody else. Be honest though when standing against a foe. Rather have a politically correct Yankee, or a pissed off Southerner? :)
David Spade never sounded so good!
duanefutch1 3 weeks ago
that is spine chillingly beautiful mmmmmmmmmmm
BAJB10 3 weeks ago
I came here because of T-bag from prison break accent and i found amazing song.
Thefighterspider 1 month ago
This isn't a cover, this is all petty!! Petty: "That may be my favorite among my songs - just in terms of a piece of pure writing. I remember writing it very vividly. It was in the middle of the night and I was playing it on the piano at home in Encino. I was just singing into my cassette recorder and suddenly these words came out. I was at the point in my career where I was very much trying to find some new ground....so no, not a cover.. :)
mrgreatunes 2 months ago
Solid Cover for sure.
grandfusion1 2 months ago
The day i won't be able to hear this song for whatever reason, i will cry.
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A relative in his mid 40's recently died and this was played at his funeral I have to admit that I had never this song previously but it has a haunting air to it.
davetherave1873 3 months ago
Sorry Tom...nothing like Mike Farris! Thank you for writing this song (if you did...I really don't know?) Peace & Love to you!
LeeannafromIndiana 3 months ago
I 'm sitting in Scotland.. he's singing for ME.. for us all... there is no better than this.
rumour6 3 months ago
The verse about his mom makes me tear up every time. <3 LOVE this song!!
MindyAirr 3 months ago
forgot how much this record means to me, TP is a legend
lozenger1 3 months ago
5 PEOPLE CANT GET RIGHT
CJLD28 3 months ago
Does anybody else see the awkward 'fly by' at 3:33?
*Hands in the air*
"EEEEHHHHHH" -Tom
austinwvids 4 months ago
Every so often i come back here, just to listen to this song and chill.
It's magic.
Pure magic.
samanosukkia 4 months ago
5 yankees dislike this
ericfsu14 4 months ago
@ericfsu14 it would be more clever if you said 5 yankees think this is dumb
Id rather not start an argument on a good song so Ill leave it at that
teeoff123456 3 months ago
It gives me goosebumps and also makes me want to cry when he sings "There's a dream I keep having where my mama comes to me. She kneels down by the window and says a prayer for me."
deflepphartme 5 months ago
awesome cover!!!!!!!
danilo1891 5 months ago
@danilo1891 this is the original
stereodeluxe74 5 months ago
im 20 and i want to marry this man, not in a weird way though. just so he could sing to me every night. he sooths me.
BREANNAschoening 6 months ago
Incredible!!!!!
dgmg7 7 months ago
THis song just kills me - I can't listen to it enough!
celtica99 7 months ago
The irony is that he doesn't have much of accent. But it certainly is a beautiful song.
PhiloAmericana 7 months ago
I shed a single tear in awe.
SomeDudeOnY2B 8 months ago
My fav Tom Petty song! It's been become my personal anthem since moving to Indiana. This song taught me to be proud of where I come from, my individuality, and my southern accent!
MyPuppyJackpot 8 months ago
Johnny Cash said that this should be the southern anthem and I tend to agree,being born here and will never leave again until the bury me under a cypress tree.Everything here is done with a southern accent ya dont like it leave it and we don't give a damn how ya did it in up there.
TBWAY999 8 months ago
Simply beautiful...Tom sings with his heart. One of my favorites ~
GypsyGrl100 9 months ago
''A SOUTHERN PRAYER''.. LETS ALL PRAY TOGETHER FOR THE PEOPLE IN MISS. BAMA, GEORGIA, TENN, AND THE CAROLINAS, IT WAS A SAD DAY IN THE SOUTH YESTERDAY, LORD HELP THE ONES THAT LOST THEIR LOVE ONES, WHAT A TRAGEDY IT WAS... PEACE AND LOVE FROM THE PEOPLE IN CENTRAL FLA.
I do everything with a Southern Accent!
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chocolatediet11 9 months ago
ya yeah! great song, horrrible guitar....GO NOLES!!!!!
rwfit4fishing 10 months ago
@rwfit4fishing You're an asshole. Well done for not seeing the beauty in this song. Says a lot about you.
Nigelxman1 9 months ago
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You really should stop listening to music now! You obviously have no clue about music!
Terrible guitar playing really? That's Mike Campbell one of the better guitarist alive today!
FloraBama 9 months ago
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butterah 9 months ago
@rwfit4fishing HATER : /
butterah 9 months ago
Just uh motel room for me.
flymarvin 10 months ago
Tom Petty is the most sensitive Bad Ass in music!!!!!!
Wheelchaser1962 10 months ago
I love this song! :0D Tom Petty is the man!
amandaggogo 10 months ago
Been singing this all day!!Thanks for a great post!!
TheCherylcom 10 months ago
Can any southerner listen to this song with a dry eye and no lump in your throat? Petty is incredible!
ckbennetttn 10 months ago 2
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I can't! ;)
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TomPettyATHeartbrak 11 months ago
This is the meaning of epic ........
ScratchinMcGroin 11 months ago
Drunk tank in Atlanta!!!!
flymarvin 1 year ago
One of the greatest songs EVER! Love Tom Petty!
JohnTaupin 1 year ago
my brother went to school with tom.
1962gpg 1 year ago
@1962gpg thats amazing dude.
TheBbqforever 11 months ago
Petty been rockin more than 30 tears .Been there 4 all of them.U rock Tom!
553friday 1 year ago
He's like an old friend who you are always happy to see and he never asks anything from you.
DrLepper 1 year ago 5
They just did a Dixieland Church Service! Amen. . .
I love the Heartbreakers. Kinna missing Stan.
I am 53 and grew up listening to all of this music in my childhood.
I will keep listening till they quit, or I die.
apachewindtalker 1 year ago 2
One of the greatest songs ever written.
PAULFC93 1 year ago 2
I am from Canada and this is one of my fav TPATH songs
KeeYaBitch 1 year ago
I am canada and I love this song.
KeeYaBitch 1 year ago
one of my top five!
erinemmalilly 1 year ago
Southern Pride!
lightmyfir3 1 year ago
I'm from florida living in the UK and this song always reminds me of home. I love his music so much.
TheOriginalFardur 1 year ago
Rofl this reminds me of history class. Whether you like it or not we are all united get over it. The "Yankees" aren't causing you any harm. You country bumpkins ahahha.
:)
xxxImtheshitxx 1 year ago
be proud of wherem you are from no matter where you are from...just because someone sounds and look different than you don't mean nothing there are good folks out ther from all over the world...people are people no matter where they live
lumpygravy 1 year ago
love it!
weluvharry4 1 year ago
My absolute FAVORITE Tom Petty song....My Yankee boyfriend LOVES my southern (Texas) accent!
MyPuppyJackpot 1 year ago
Legend
ScotsLyon 1 year ago
damn right Southern Pride, nothin like it
debzeppeliniv 1 year ago
Tom is definately from the south and his music and roots show it. Not that there's not great roots music from up North. This is a fabulous song.
enviroguy101958 1 year ago
Who ever said he's from new york you are dead wrong. He's from gainsville, Floidda
hibbytothehop 1 year ago
After 30+ years in rock n roll its amazing that he sounds exactly the same! thumbs way up for Tom Petty!
woody2385 1 year ago 15
im looking for video chip of tom petty and the heartbreaker singing the song" we stand a chance "
thinkladythink 1 year ago
I speak , act , work and walk with a southern accent. And believe or not that drunk tank in Atlanta was a free motel room. And I worked them orange groves in Pasco Co.,Fla.,when the orange groves froze. My little girl was 10 months old and I was still wild as a stallion. Bury my bones under a cypress tree!!!!
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2levina 1 year ago
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Petty's from NY. HUH? NEW YORK CITY!??! Pick up the Pace
whack47 1 year ago
This is expression at its highest, seldom attained. The line 'where I come from' is intensified with each new turn, as crying is intensified toward a crescendo. Even the 'Oh' at 3:47 is organically connected to the rest of the song. Incredible.
The line about the mother is heart-rending. What vulnerability! What honesty.
2levina 1 year ago 32
@2levina You got quite the vocabulary.
lightmyfir3 11 months ago
@2levina You are absolutely right. My mother passed earlier this year and this has been a comfort to me.
okieinexile 9 months ago
@2levina You couldn't be more spot-on in your comments. This song amazes me every time I hear it.
WickaWhippet 7 months ago
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2levina 1 year ago
Whata sweet entertainer / love love love him
Rosee60 1 year ago
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HaveL0veWillTravel 1 year ago
This is absolutely one of my favorite songs, Moves me to tears everytime I hear it. I was at 2 of his Mojo shows this year praying he would play it, but it wasn't, maybe bc it was NY. I was born in NY but I am half Georgia Peach, so this hits home for me.
For just a minute there I was dreaming, For just a minute it was all so real, For just a minute she was standing there...with me. Makes me think of my Step-Mother that I truly miss everyday, and when I dream of her at night. <3 AB <3
HaveL0veWillTravel 1 year ago 3
this song touches my heart so,from your cousin in Ga,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
sharonbng 1 year ago
That drunk tank in Atlanta was just a motel room to me... Hell Yes!
gaspardstube 1 year ago
A true classic! Takes me back to a wonderful time in my life ..
JohnTaupin 1 year ago 2
you gotta love this
mrscottleblanc 1 year ago 2
We listened to this song in class and I was the only one who likes is. The others are too cool to admit...
LadyLissi1 1 year ago
Awesome song, regards to the south. With a voice like that he has to have blood from Gods country. Cymru am byth.( Wales For Ever.) An older version of 'The South will rise again'!
Fferiwr 1 year ago
New york is not all city! ive lived in ny all my life, never have even been to the city!!! Theres a place called upstate ny! Which is COUNTRY!!!! PROUD TO BE A YANK!!!
CountryJenny87 1 year ago
Beautiful song! I'm a Southern girl....born, bred, and raised in Alabama. I'm married to a Yankee transplant, turned Southern boy and he loves the south as much as I do.
MrsHavens1984 1 year ago
i love this blond man so soooo much!!!!!!!!! its amazing! please, tell me where can i get this dvd, this concert???
yaelleinthesky 1 year ago 3
I lived in Ca. most of my life, moved to SE Mo. 10 years ago and there is a difference in lifestyle and demeanor. Not all of it is positive but at 47 I sure appreciate slowin down and just appreciating life.
1963legion 1 year ago
4 people are dumbasses
kejola1969 1 year ago
So Beautiful, from One of your Southern girls,Love you Tom
sharonbng 1 year ago 3
I love this song. I'm a transplanted yankee 45 years ago. Lived in Gainesville when Petty became famous. Still a Floridian. Wish I could've seen the Gainesville boy when he played there in Gainesville! Saw him play in Daytona a few years back. He's an original. He'll always be great.
mimmimoo 1 year ago
alright will all the southerners stop saying shit about the north thats not true and vice versa. An accent is a way of speaking, not a way to determine if someones dumb or a redneck. And for the generalizations of the north: it is NOT all city and rude people. We may live a faster lifestyle but most people are very friendly and trust me go to the vast rural areas up here and youll see why you dont have to be from the south to be redneck.
gmenfan48 1 year ago
Not as good as the Johnny Cash version
cooperjacob22 1 year ago
ルイジアナレインはないですね、誰も聞かないのかあるいは持ってないのか。いい曲だと思うのですが。ボニータイラーもカバーしてましたが、それもアップされてない。CDならあるんですけど、映像も見たい。
msx1978 1 year ago
@msx1978 huh?
cooperjacob22 1 year ago
Fucking damn right Tom.
The boy's no Johnny Cash, but he's pretty close.
Zeratul723 1 year ago
@Zeratul723 only johny cash is johnyu cash...this is tom petty..
SuperJeremy25 1 year ago
A stately venerable sound on this song, or so it seems to me. I am a Northern Canadian (really north!) and am engaged to a lady in Texas. When we have her family over for dinner they all hold hands and say a blessing, just like how Tom describes it in his song. Yes they say 'Y'all' and many other Southern things and I love her for it. Her whole family has shown me extraordinary hospitaity and gives a very good image for Americans.
19nervousbreak 1 year ago 3
The pronoun "y'all" is not really a southern thing anymore. On the top 10 search results, I got a hit from a Bostonian, an Arizonian, even Australian (no, not that other "south") Kylie Minogue uses that term. But what bugs me most is a blogger from the New York Daily News who blogs for the YANKEES! (Live blogging, y'all) Really the "true south" is gone with the wind! The "liberal gap" between the other regions is closing. The southern accent is dwindling thanks to mass media as well!
pannoni1 1 year ago
@pannoni1 not here in eastern kentucky baby....Hillbilly Hollywood!!!!!! YYYYEEEEAWWWWW
SuperJeremy25 1 year ago
@SuperJeremy25 You got it sugah! Eastern Kentucky home sweet home! Boyd County KY
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SuperJeremy25 1 year ago
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Tom Petty... and the Fart Makers...!
ThomasDeLello 1 year ago
What a wonderful song....was great night in Gainsville...a long way from when we all would go see T.P..at a place called Dubs,good times....
bamanorm 1 year ago 2
What is literate genius is how the narrator suddenly muses about a lost love. That is a brilliant inclusion in what is already a wonderful song.
gmartinz01 1 year ago
Never been to the South, but Petty makes it sound so beautiful. Great songwriter.
assngrass 1 year ago
Just watched that Runnin' Down a Dream documentary and i HAD to come on yourube and favorite this song
PAULFC93 1 year ago 3
Tom Petty &The Heartbreakersの傑作バラッド。手堅い演奏もお手のもの。素晴らしいバンドだ！
daiwa2093 1 year ago
Yeah this is all about accents. That's it. Fuck. I'll take Queen's English any day over this. Petty is great but if you drive 500 miles in any direction, the English you hear sounds like SHIT. But good on you, Tom!
FairlyGrrl 1 year ago
@FairlyGrrl "queens english" reffering to old english i guess...well you do realize that the "southern accent" sounds more like "old english" though right? :P
MrCSXboy98 1 year ago
@FairlyGrrl Must every sentence in the "Queen's English" contain a curse word?
FRSTex 1 year ago
bombspiceblends*com potent n cheap
bombspiceblendscom 1 year ago
Fuck all yankees.
lightmyfir3 1 year ago
@lightmyfir3 when you say that do u mean everyone from the us or just people from the north because to people that dont live here a yankee is an american. I bet you have never been to the north, people from the south think its all solid city when in places like upstate new york, pennsylvania and new england have gorgeous country sides.
gmenfan48 1 year ago
@gmenfan48 I'm referring to the north. Those yankees are no good.
lightmyfir3 1 year ago 2
@gmenfan48 this yankee from minnesota says your fucking lame ive been down
south from florida to west texas & i love the south my mom/her side of family
was mostly from texas! we have goofy talking people from MN that people from
around the US make fun of & yall have hicks as well dont act like we are all bad
cuz we are from there NORTH... the DIRTY south has some "NO GOOD FOLKS"
as well... take a trip to a small farm town in the north & you will meet some
really GOOD people smart ass!!!
brownrider56 1 year ago
@brownrider56 are you talking to me or this other guy cause im not the one generalizing...if people from the south saw some of the beautiful places up here that arent solid city than maybe the South/North division would lessen.
gmenfan48 1 year ago
Such an impressing song ! I am for Europe, but I love this genuine American song !
rusnacky 1 year ago
I listen to just about everything when it comes to music, but when I listen to Petty he's always blown me away with true life stories...im 28 years old and hes by far my favorite musician of all time, keeps it fairly simple, and keeps your head up in the game of life :)
jrmydcksn 1 year ago
Tom's right - if we are born and raised Southern, everything we do has a Southern accent. Southern is a way of thinking and a way of life, and we take our values and strengths (think Steel Magnolias) everywhere we go.
PAGAN19 1 year ago
@PAGAN19 It's more a SONG. That goes on a RECORD. That makes MONEY. I've been to your 'part' of the world. I wouldn't give you two bob for it. You keep it, PWT.
FairlyGrrl 1 year ago
@FairlyGrrl We won't miss you.
FRSTex 1 year ago
its the only song hes done i like. hes done good music but this song makes since to me yaw
ps90tacguy 1 year ago
@ps90tacguy All you fellers with that there accent spell the same way? LOLZ
FairlyGrrl 1 year ago
I think on my recording of this on Playback he does more of what he does at 3:36 and at 3:47 ...which I love ...but this is good. Tom Petty rocks.
tammytalking 1 year ago
I was a family friend for many years . I know Tom was thinking of Kitty( his mom ) and Earl (his dad ) when he sang this . Both are now deceased . Tom was very good to his parents .
danguitarflorida 1 year ago 5
Been a Petty fan since 77. Never ceases to amaze me. Great song from a great album.
bvallier100 1 year ago 7
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whats up with the jesus pose at the end
nick1137 1 year ago
I've been listening to Tom Petty since 1977. He's as good today as he was back then. I have two sons that went to UF in Gainesville so that makes Tom Petty's music more special.
llstelck 1 year ago
johnny covered tom
novie83 2 years ago 2
Is this a cover of the Johnny Cash song or vice versa?
notjohnbehan 2 years ago
My god, I´ve listened to Tom petty since I was eight, Im fiftheen now, but not until today I´ve actually found out how good this song is:) I have to listen to it once more!
AlbinOstervall 2 years ago 5
Just for the record, I'm a New England yankee from an old yankee family. I've probably spent one month total in the south in my whole life. I don't make fun of anyone's accent because every accent is beautiful in its own way.
And I just adore this song. It's about roots, being proud of your roots, proud of who you are. Universal. Timeless.
artichoke25 2 years ago 52
@artichoke25 yea i am from alabama (south america) and i love ur accents there soooooo cool i aint never herd noe of ur accents untile my uncle came and met me he is from england.
crazyformisty123 1 year ago
@artichoke25 I'm a strange product. In 1605 the wealthy patriarch of my family arrived on the first ship to New Haven and served as a magistrate and deacon in both New Haven and New Jersey while continually expanding his family and his fortune. However somewhere along the line some foolish ancestor of mine named Job moved down to Charlotte in the midst of the Civil War and after all of that nonsense here I am in Georgia mixed with that bloodline and Southern gentry, and defected Russo nobility.
pleasuremuffin 1 year ago
@pleasuremuffin In short I'm not sure what the hell I would qualify under.
pleasuremuffin 1 year ago
@artichoke25 Today I'm a Yank! Them days I'd be death! I'd definitely I'd be under the black flag!!
oldwarhorse1865 1 year ago
@artichoke25 Your words are like Donne's. "Therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." The bell tolls for all of us, Yankee and Cracker, Cracker like me.
infonomics 1 year ago
@artichoke25 and to one step future I'm from U.K and echo your thoughts
motney555 1 year ago
@artichoke25 As we say here in Tennessee, Thank ye ,kindly, artichoke!
VOLume72 1 year ago
perhaps the most UNDERRATED tom petty song. i fell in love with this song when the record came out and i was just a kid at the time. i play it as a jobbing musician in my act from time to time. many folks are surprised to learn that its a tom petty tune.
4403forsaftey 2 years ago 5
are the yankees people from new york?
amoalalo 2 years ago
Yankees are technically anyone from the North (above Virginia) but its a derogatory term for people from New York and New England ("Damn Yankees") but in Europe it just means American, which is funny because a Southerner would take offense to it.
briansane 2 years ago
We refer to Americans as Yank's, it's not meant as an insult, i can assure you.
MITCHWILD 1 year ago 5
@MITCHWILD i alive in southern america....... and none of them ppl up north talk nothen like us its really funny any ways.....
crazyformisty123 1 year ago
@briansane I read somewhere that a 'yankee' to the World at large is from the USA and in the USA a 'yankee' is from up north. In the north a 'yankee' is from New England and in New England a 'yankee' is from Vermont. In Vermont a 'yankee' is someone that eats pie for breakfast.
114Pilot 1 year ago 4
Amazing! Some of these comments! I'll choose political correctness, fairness, goodness over hatred, bigotry, discrimination anyday(and i was born and raised in the south). I don't care who has these qualities--that's the truth. You will never progress if you are proud of the negative southern past and habits. Start by choosing the way you talk! Not yankeee not southern just you!
beryl714 2 years ago
@beryl714 You are an idiot...of course you have known that all of your life but now we all know it.
jaydeedubya 2 years ago 3
This touches me!
angelineHful 2 years ago 4
I hate yankees, they say we talk dumb. I wish they could hear themselves talking. They must be appreciated up north. I don't like them down here.
pajax6 2 years ago 6
i was born in new york and i moved down south at 18. 14 yrs ago. i was amazed how nice every one was too me. so laid back and fun. when i got back up north everyone made fun of my southern accent. nobody down south made fun of my northern one! nuff said.
deedasmom 2 years ago 5
"There's a dream I keep havin' , where my Mama comes to me ... " I'm a little faklempt , talk amongst yourselves .
squabs217 2 years ago
All one can do is sigh! It's hard to describe what these people have meant to me musically through the years. Mr.Petty himself is of course "the crush of my life" but he really needs the others too! We are all depending on the people around us, fortunately.
34bente 2 years ago 2
check out Mike Farris' version of this...much more dramatic and emotional-very cool song by Tom
aledocat 2 years ago
Southern accents and Southern ways - wherever I live I will never stop being Southern. If it sets us apart, so be it and y'all can just envy us. My heritage kicks ass.This song is my very heart and soul.
PAGAN19 2 years ago 5
It was an homer to see him play at ACL i think 2007 . omg it was the best!
Pedr0lee 2 years ago
"for just minute she was standing there with me." his voice sounds so nice when he sings that line.
cattleforslaughter 2 years ago 18
@cattleforslaughter
A heartbreaking, breathtaking interpretation I once heard is this line foreshadows the reference to a deceased mother in the next stanza. If so, Tom Petty is an even greater poet than I already believed.
bobh28630 1 year ago 4
This song just touches my heart. I love it!!
Pettyswoman 2 years ago 3
I mostly listen to Southern rap but I like all kinds of music...and I LOVE this song! It almost brings tears to my eyes...I love Florida and the South!
SkinnyFLA 2 years ago 2
when and where was this concert?
jorge37325 2 years ago
Isen't this a Johnny Cash song? Or atleast he sang it aswell...
soulseek1111 2 years ago
Johnny Cash covered this song on his "Unchained" album, which Tom & The Heartbreakers was the backup band on. This is a song Tom wrote in the 80's sometime before The Traveling Wilburys.
rtym72surf 2 years ago 2
Oh ok well thanks for the info. i like this song but I've only heard Mr Cash sing it..
soulseek1111 2 years ago 2
Soul Johnny Cash covered it... He also called it one of the best songs he had ever heard... high praise from the man in black
shumirules1 2 years ago 3
Thank you....
soulseek1111 2 years ago
gotta be here to be here
baddteeth 2 years ago
because its a dream i keep having but its my father coming to me this song makes me think of my dad.
mlohof 2 years ago 3
southern..god love us or for no one else will..We do things a wee bit different than anybody else..but it is where we come from..bentmont tench is the glue what holds tom and the boys together...amen
voodoocan4 2 years ago
Voodoocan4
It's OK if no one else loves us if we've God on our side. Don't get any bigger & badder than God :)
Mother has callouses on her knees.Praying for her only son. I can attest if not for asking & receiving God's help. I don't think he'd be alive today. He's Southern to the bone, & all that entails, good & bad :)
Yes, we do things a wee bit different than anybody else. Be honest though when standing against a foe. Rather have a politically correct Yankee, or a pissed off Southerner? :)
LetTheSCRebelsYell 2 years ago 3
ha ha benmont is rockin it , best pianist ever
zombiedude25 2 years ago
Go, Tommy, go!
Still the best frontman in r'n'r!
blindwilliehighlight 2 years ago
0:05
why
the FUCK
are ther so many keyboards
sheldordaworrior 2 years ago
remember Don Felder from The Eagles taught Tom how to play guitar way back when
scottydunn54 2 years ago
love this album! Still.
Nigella72 2 years ago 2
Tom Petty has really matured as an artist. It is really moving to hear him sing about his roots.
MrTexas34 2 years ago 4
Amazing. Petty + Cash = chill bumps :D
thestarinuri 2 years ago 3
My hero!!!!
What a great songwriter!!!
Monkain08 2 years ago 2