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American Girl by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Guitar Chords

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            Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: American Girl

[Intro]
18 bars D
Two bars E7, two G, A A , D D, E7 E7, G G, A7 A7

[Verse 1]
{D}Well she was an {E7}American girl. 
{G}Raised on {A}promises
{D}She couldn't help {E7}thinking that 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} allright, {D}take it easy baby {Bm}make it last all night{G}
She was {A}  an American {D}girl

[Verse 2]
Well it was kinda cold that night
She stood alone on the balcony
Yeh, she could hear the cars roll by,
out on four-fortyone like waves crashing on the beach
And for one des'rate moment there
he crept back in her memory
God it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far to reach. **

[Chorus]
{1}Oh yeah,{A} allright, {D}take it easy baby {Bm}make it last all night{G}
She was {A}  an American {D}girl
 
[Outro] 
D, G7 G7, A D,D,D, lots of D's, G7, G7,A,A, D, D ,D, D,E7 ,G ,D 
(not really sure here as you see..)

last piece

 D                                     E7
e|--5-2-0-3-2-0-5-2-0-3-2-0-|--repeat-|-7-4-0-5-4-0-7-4-0-5-4-0-|repeat--|
B|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|
G|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|
D|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|
A|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|
E|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|

 G                                     D
e|--10-7-0-9-7-0-10-7-0-9-7-0-|-rep-|--12-9-0-10-9-0-12-9-0-10-9-0|-rep|
B|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|
G|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|
D|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|
A|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|
E|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|

and fade out 

** Sounds like "Far out of reach" to me -- JF 
        

We also have 29 songs by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

• A Woman In Love
• American Girl
• Angel Dream
• Breakdown
• Change Of Heart
• Christmas All Over Again
• Dont Come Around Here No More
• Dont Do Me Like That
• Even The Losers
• Here Comes My Girl
• I Need To Know
• Insider
• Into The Great Wide Open
• Itll All Work Out
• Jammin Me
• Kings Highway
• Learning To Fly
• Listen To Her Heart
• Mary Janes Last Dance
• Rebels
• Refugee
• Something In The Air
• Southern Accents
• Stories We Could Tell
• Swingin
• The Best Of Everything
• The Waiting
• Walls Circus
• You Got Lucky

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