E                     C#m F#
Well she was an American girl
A               B
    Raised on proses
E                    F#
  She couldnt help thinkin that there
      A
Was a little more to life
B
Somewhere else
                    E
After all it was a great big world
A                         F#m
     With lots of places to run to
B
and if she had to die
B
Tryin she had one little promise
B                   A
She was gonna keep

[Chorus]
      B    E
Oh yeah, all right
           C#m
Take it easy baby
               E
Make it last all night
          B            E
She was an American girl

[Verse 2]
E               F#
It was kind of cold that night
A                      B
She stood alone on her balcony
E                     F#
     She could the cars roll by
     Am
Out on 441
   B
Like waves crashin in the beach
                   D#   E
And for one desperate moment there
A                      F#m
He crept back in her memory
  B
God its so painful
Something thats so close
And still so far out of reach

[Chorus]
A       B         E
Oh yeah, all right
             C#m
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
A           B           E
   She was an American girl

[Instrumental]
A   B   E