American Girl Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Intro:
[D]
1st Verse:
[D] Well she was an A[E7]merican girl [G] raised on [A]promises
[D] she couldn't [E7]help thinkin' there was a [G]little more to life [A]somewhere else
after all it was a
[D]great big world [G] with lots of places to [Em]run to
[A]and if she had to die tryin' she had one little promise she was gonna keep
Chorus:
[G] Oh yeah [A] all right
[D] take it easy baby [Bm] make it last all night
[G] she was [A] an American [D]girl
2nd Verse:
[D] Well it was kinda [E7]cold that night [G]she stood alone on the [A]balcony
[D] Yeah she could hear the [E7]cars roll by out on [G]441 like [A]waves crashin' on the
beach and for one desperate
[D]moment there [G] he crept back in her [Em]memory
[A]God it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach
Chorus:
[G] Oh yeah [A] all right
[D] take it easy baby [Bm] make it last all night
[G] she was [A] an American [D]girl
Break:
[G] [G] [G] [G] [G#] [A] [A] [D] [G] [G#] [D]
[G] [G] [G] [G] [G#] [A] [A] [D] [G] [G#] [D]
[G] [G] [G] [G] [G#] [A] [A] [D] [G] [G#] [D]
[G] [G] [G] [G] [G#] [A]
[D]
Outro:
[D] [E7] [G] [A]
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