American Girl

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

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Intro
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Verse
                E             G 
Well she was an American girl  

       A           D 
Raised on promises  

                  E 
She couldn't help thinking that there 

    G                     A              A 
Was a little more to life somewhere else  


Chorus
                 D                 G 
After all it was a great big world  

                    E 
With lots of places to run to 

E7   A                     A 
Yeah and if she had to die  trying 

    A                A                          G 
She  had one little promise she was gonna keep  

   A7   A         D 
Oh yeah  alright  

             Bm 
Take it easy baby 

                 G 
Make it last all night 

        A             D    D 
She was  an American girl  


Verse
            E7         E 
Well it was kinda cold that night 

G                  A 
She stood alone on her balcony 

     D                E                       G 
Yeah  she could hear the cars roll by out on four hundred and fortyone 

A                                A 
Like waves crashing on the beach  


Chorus
                      D 
And for one desperate moment there 

G                E 
He crept back in her memory 

A                                             A 
God it's so painful something that's so close  

            A                G 
Is still so far out of reach  

        A         D 
Oh yeah  alright  

             Bm7 
Take it easy baby 

                 Bm    G 
Make it last all night  

        A             D 
She was  an American girl 


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Solo
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Em7 G Asus4 D Esus4 Em7 G Asus4 D E G A D 
                             


Outro
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