Sent:   Saturday, December 13, 1997 2:25 AM

Artist: Roger McGuinn
Title:  American Girl  written by Tom Petty
Copyright 1976 Skyhill Music(BMI)
Source: the Thunderbyrd LP

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Well she was an American girl 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 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

keep
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Oh yea allright take it easy baby 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 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 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 make it last all night
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She was an American girl