Tom Petty – American Girl (Album: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers(1976))

[intro: D ]

D         E         G        A
Well she was an American girl, Raised on promises
She couldn’t help thinkin’
     That there was a little more to life somewhere else
After all it was a

D                   G                         E

great big world With lots of places to run to
A

And if she had to die tryin’
     She had one little promise she was gonna keep

G              A              D             

Oh yeah, all right,  Take it easy, baby

Bm                           G              A               D

Make it last all night,  She was an American girl

Well it was kinda cold that night
     She stood alone on her balcony
Yeah, she could hear the cars roll by
     Out on 441 like waves crashin’ on the beach
And for one desperate

D                         G                   E

Moment There he crept back in her memory
A

God it’s so painful when something that’s so close
     Is still so far out of reach
[chorus]
Breakdown: {G, G, G;  A, A, D} x4 

Solo outro: [D]