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 |