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

[ D ] well it was kinda cold [ E7 ] that night
[ G ] she stood alone on the [ A ] balcony
[ D ] yeh , she could hear the [ E7 ] cars roll by ,
out on [ G ] four – fortyone like [ A ] waves crashing on the beach
and for one des’rate [ D ] moment there
[ G ] he crept back in her [ Em ] memory
[ A ] god it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far to reach . * *

( chorus )