Originally in D, I play in G
Intro, with lots of jangling and bass movement
G |
Vox on the 1
G | A |
Well, she was an A | merican girl |
C | D |
Raised on | promises |
G | A |
She couldn’t help | thinkin’ that there was a |
C | D |
Little more to life | somewhere else |
D | G |
After all it was a | great big world |
C | Am |
With lots of places to | run to |
D |
And if she had to die tryin’ she had one little promise she was gonna keep |
C | D | G | Em |
Oh yeah, | all right, | take it easy, baby, | make it last all night |
C | D | G |
She was | an American | girl |
G | A |
Well, it was kinda | cold that night |
C | D |
She stood alone on the | balcony |
G | A |
Yeah, she could hear the | cars roll by |
C | D | |
Out on | four forty-one like | waves crashin’ on the beach |
D | G |
And for one desperate | moment there |
C | Am |
He crept back in her | memory |
D |
God it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach |
C | D | G | Em |
Oh yeah, | all right, | take it easy, baby, | make it last all night |
C | D | G |
She was | an American | girl |
Funky bridge
C | C | D | G |
x 3 |
C | C | D | D |
Repeat intro
G |