American Girl

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Well she was an American girl 
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raised on promises
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She couldn't help thinking that 
there was
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A little more to life somewhere else
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After all it was a great big world 
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with lots of places to run to
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And if she had to die trying she had
 one little promise she was gonna

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keep
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Oh yea allright take it easy baby 
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make it last all night
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She was an American girl
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Well it was kind cold that night 
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she stood alone on the balcony
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Yea she could hear the cars roll by
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Out on 441 like waves crashing on 
the beach
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And for one desperate moment there 
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he crept back in her memory
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God it's so painful when something 
that's so close

Is hard to find
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Oh yea allright take it easy baby 
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make it last all night
G       A           D
She was an American girl