Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Released: March 26, 1985

Songwriter: Tom Petty

Producer: Tom Petty Mike W. Campbell

Mary got a brand new car
Mary got a brand new set of wheels
Now everyone here is so charged
Man, you don't know how good it feels
And we want to go where she goes
We want to listen to her radio

Mary got a brand new car
Mary got the one she was saving for
Now everyone here is so charged
Many never looked so good before
And we want to go where she goes
We want to listen to her radio

Can we ride? Mary, can we ride?
Can we ride? Mary, can we ride?

Can we ride? Mary, can we ride?
Can we ride? Mary, can we ride?

Mary got a brand new car
Mary got a brand new set of wheels
Now everyone here is so charged
Man, you don't know how good it feels
And we want to go where she goes
We want to listen to her radio

Mary got a brand new car
Mary got a brand new car
Mary got a brand new car
Mary got a brand new car
Mary got a brand new car
Mary got a brand new car

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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