Biography:
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers was a rock band formed in 1976 from Gainesville, Florida, USA and led by Tom Petty.
Petty was supported by his band, The Heartbreakers, for the majority of his career. He has occasionally released solo work, as was the case with his 2006 album Highway Companion on which he performed most of the backing instrumentation himself. However, members of The Heartbreakers have played on each of his solo albums and the band has always backed him when touring in support of those albums.
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Other songs:
- A Thing About You
- A Woman In Love
- All You Can Carry
- Alright For Now
- American Dream Plan B
- American Girl
- Babys A Rock N Roller
- Between Two Worlds
- Billy The Kid
- Breakdown
- California
- Century City
- Change Of Heart
- Christmas All Over Again
- Dont Pull Me Over
- Echo
- Even The Losers
- Fault Lines
- For Real
- Free Fallin
- Full Grown Boy
- Hometown Blues
- I Got A Woman
- I Need You
- I Wont Back Down
- Im Crying
- Insider
- Into The Great Wide Open
- Itll All Work Out
- Keep A Little Soul
- Keeping Me Alive
- License To Kill
- Like A Diamond
- Louisiana Rain
- Makin Some Noise
- Mary Janes Last Dance
- Mystery Man
- No More
- Playing Dumb
- Red River
- Refugee
- Restless
- Rhino Skin
- Room At The Top
- Sins Of My Youth
- So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star
- Something Big
- Stop Draggin My Heart Around
- Straight Into Darkness
- Swingin
- The Criminal Kind
- The Trip To Pirates Cove
- The Waiting
- This Ones For Me
- Too Good To Be True
- U Get Me High
- Walls Circus
- Walls No 3
- We Stand A Chance
- What Are You Doin In My Life
- You And I Will Meet Again
- You And Me
- You Get Me High
- You Tell Me
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[Intro]
(Guitar 1: 18 bars)
D
(Guitar 2:)
E7 E7 G G A A D D E7 E7 G G A7 A7
[Verse]
D E7
Well, she was an American girl
G A
Raised on promises
D E7
She couldn't help thinkin' that there was a
G A
little more to life somewhere else
[Pre-Chorus]
A D
After all it was a great big world
G Em
With lots of places to run to
A
And if she had to die tryin' she had one little promise she was gonna keep
[Chorus]
G A D Bm
O yeah, all right, take it easy, baby, make it last all night
G A D
She was an American girl
[Verse]
D E7
Well, it was kinda cold that night
G A
She stood alone on the balcony
D E7
Yeah, she could hear the cars roll by
G A
Out on 441 like waves crashin' on the beach
[Pre-Chorus]
A D
And for one desperate moment there
G Em
He crept back in her memory
A
God it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach
[Chorus]
G A D Bm
O yeah, all right, take it easy, baby, make it last all night
G A D
She was an American girl
[Outro]
G G G G G# A D
G G G G G# A D
G G G G G# A D
G G G A A A
D E7 G A
(Repeat to end)
(Guitar 1: 18 bars)
D
(Guitar 2:)
E7 E7 G G A A D D E7 E7 G G A7 A7
[Verse]
D E7
Well, she was an American girl
G A
Raised on promises
D E7
She couldn't help thinkin' that there was a
G A
little more to life somewhere else
[Pre-Chorus]
A D
After all it was a great big world
G Em
With lots of places to run to
A
And if she had to die tryin' she had one little promise she was gonna keep
[Chorus]
G A D Bm
O yeah, all right, take it easy, baby, make it last all night
G A D
She was an American girl
[Verse]
D E7
Well, it was kinda cold that night
G A
She stood alone on the balcony
D E7
Yeah, she could hear the cars roll by
G A
Out on 441 like waves crashin' on the beach
[Pre-Chorus]
A D
And for one desperate moment there
G Em
He crept back in her memory
A
God it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach
[Chorus]
G A D Bm
O yeah, all right, take it easy, baby, make it last all night
G A D
She was an American girl
[Outro]
G G G G G# A D
G G G G G# A D
G G G G G# A D
G G G A A A
D E7 G A
(Repeat to end)
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