Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Released: November 20, 1995

Songwriter: Arthur Gunter

Producer: Mike W. Campbell Tom Petty Rick Rubin

Baby baby baby baby baby
Come back baby I wanna play house with you

You may go to college
You may go to school
You may have a pink Cadillac
But don't you be nobody's fool

Now come baby come
Come back baby come
Come back baby
I wanna play house with you

Now this is one thing baby
I want you to know
Well-a, come on back to me little girl
We can make like we did before

Well now this is one thing baby
That I'm talkin' about
Well, come on back to me little girl
So we can play some house

Well, listen to me baby
Try to understand
Well, I'd rather see you dead little girl
Than to be with another man

(Chorus)

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – an L.A.-based gang of sharp-dressed garage-rock refugees from Gainsville, Florida – released their debut LP in November 1976, featuring two tracks which are now part of their long list of hits, “Breakdown” and “American Girl.”

Since that first LP in ‘76, the band’s style has epitomized and largely defined the American “heartland rock” movement – a vintage-guitar twang, hard lyric truth, and searing vocal attitude.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have been nominated for 17 Grammy awards and sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making them one of the world’s best-selling bands of all-time.

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