| Comment: # Starts with Em then go half tone deeper on D string, then Em7 and open A7 |
| Comment: # C in Refrain is C with a D and G on H and E string |
| Em | Em7 | A7 | |
| Eddie waited till he | finished high | school |
| Em | Em7 | A7 | |
| He went to Hollywood, | got a | tattoo |
| Am | Am7 | C | |
| He met a girl out there | with a tattoo | too |
| G | F | C | |
| The | future | was wide | open |
| C | F | C | G | |
| C | F | C | G | |
| They moved into a place they both could afford |
| He found a nightclub he could work at the door |
| She had a guitar and she taught him some chords |
| The sky was the limit |
| C | F | C | G | |
| C | F | C | D | |
| G | C | D | |
| Into the | great wide | open, |
| G | C | D | Am | |
| Under them | skies of | blue |
| G | C | D | |
| Out in the | great wide | open, |
| G | F | Em | A | |
| A | rebel | without a | clue |
| C | F | C | G | |
| C | F | C | G | |
| The papers said Ed always played from the heart |
| He got an agent and a roadie named Bart |
| They made a record and it went in the charts |
| T he sky was the limit |
| His leather jacket had chains that would jingle |
| They both met movie stars, partied and mingled |
| Their A&R man said "I don't hear a single" |
| The future was wide open |
| Into the great wide open, |
| Under them skies of blue |
| Out in the great wide open, |
| A rebel without a clue |
| Into the great wide open, |
| Under them skies of blue |
| Out in the great wide open, |
| A rebel without a clue |