American Girl Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Lisa Marsh

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0:00 3:28
Tuning Standard (E A D G B E)
Beat 4/4
Key: D
Capo:
No capo
Strumming 1

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[Intro]
D
D E G A

[Verse 1]
D                 E
 Well she was an American girl
G          A
 Raised on promises
D                  E
 She couldn't help thinkin' that there
      G
Was a little more to life
A
Somewhere else
                   D
After all it was a great big world
G                       E
 With lots of places to run to
A
Yeah, if she had to die
Tryin' she had one little promise
She was gonna keep

[Chorus]
G        A
 Oh yeah, all right
D
 Take it easy baby
Bm
  Make it last all night
G       A            D
 She was an American girl

[Verse 2]
D                     E
 Well, It was kind of cold that night
G                      A
She stood alone on her balcony
D                        E
 Yeh, she could hear the cars roll by
       G
Out on four fourty one
     A
Like waves crashin' in on the beach
                      D
And for one desperate moment there
G                    E
He crept back in her memory
A
God it's so painful
Something that's so close
And still so far out of reach

[Chorus]
G        A
 Oh yeah, all right
D
 Take it easy baby
Bm
  Make it last all night
G       A            D
 She was an American girl

[Interlude]
G A D G A D
G A D G A
D E G A
D E G A

[Outro]
D E G A
D E G A
D E G A

[Fade Out]
D E G A

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