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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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: American Girl
[Intro]
18 bars D
Two bars E7, two G, A A , D D, E7 E7, G G, A7 A7
[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]
Well it was kinda cold that night
She stood alone on the balcony
Yeh, she could hear the cars roll by,
out on four-fortyone like waves crashing on the beach
And for one des'rate moment there
he crept back in her memory
God it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far to reach. **
[Chorus]
{1}Oh yeah,{A} allright, {D}take it easy baby {Bm}make it last all night{G}
She was {A} an American {D}girl
[Outro]
D, G7 G7, A D,D,D, lots of D's, G7, G7,A,A, D, D ,D, D,E7 ,G ,D
(not really sure here as you see..)
last piece
D E7
e|--5-2-0-3-2-0-5-2-0-3-2-0-|--repeat-|-7-4-0-5-4-0-7-4-0-5-4-0-|repeat--|
B|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|
G|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|
D|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|
A|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|
E|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|
G D
e|--10-7-0-9-7-0-10-7-0-9-7-0-|-rep-|--12-9-0-10-9-0-12-9-0-10-9-0|-rep|
B|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|
G|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|
D|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|
A|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|
E|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|
and fade out
** Sounds like "Far out of reach" to me -- JF
[Intro]
18 bars D
Two bars E7, two G, A A , D D, E7 E7, G G, A7 A7
[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]
Well it was kinda cold that night
She stood alone on the balcony
Yeh, she could hear the cars roll by,
out on four-fortyone like waves crashing on the beach
And for one des'rate moment there
he crept back in her memory
God it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far to reach. **
[Chorus]
{1}Oh yeah,{A} allright, {D}take it easy baby {Bm}make it last all night{G}
She was {A} an American {D}girl
[Outro]
D, G7 G7, A D,D,D, lots of D's, G7, G7,A,A, D, D ,D, D,E7 ,G ,D
(not really sure here as you see..)
last piece
D E7
e|--5-2-0-3-2-0-5-2-0-3-2-0-|--repeat-|-7-4-0-5-4-0-7-4-0-5-4-0-|repeat--|
B|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|
G|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|
D|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|
A|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|
E|--------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|
G D
e|--10-7-0-9-7-0-10-7-0-9-7-0-|-rep-|--12-9-0-10-9-0-12-9-0-10-9-0|-rep|
B|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|
G|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|
D|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|
A|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|
E|----------------------------|-----|----------------------------------|
and fade out
** Sounds like "Far out of reach" to me -- JF
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