Counting Crows – American Girls (Guitar)

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Intro (with riff) - the bars provide a timing reference F Bb | F Bb | F Bb | C | Bb | F Bb | F Bb | Bb | Verse 1:
                 F             Bb
She comes out on Fridays every time

                F
Stands out in a line

C                  Bb            F       F Bb F Bb    Bb
 I could have been anyone she'd seen     (Riff 1)

                  F             Bb
She waits another week to fall apart

                          F
She couldn't make another day

C              Bb          C
 I wish it was anyone but me

                  Bb          C
I could have been anyone you see

                  Gm             Bb
She had something breakable just under her skin
Chorus 1:
Dm         Bb                     F
  American girls all weather and noise

            C                      Dm
Playing the changes for all of the boys

          Bb               F
Holding a candle up to my hand

           C
Making me feel so incredible
Verse 2:
Bb                   F             Bb
    She comes out of closets every night

              F
But then she locks herself away

C                     Bb             C
 Where she could keep anything from me

                  Bb          C
I could have been anyone you see

                  Gm          Bb
She's nothing but porcelain underneath her skin
Chorus 2:
Dm         Bb                     F
  American girls all weather and noise

            C                      Dm
Playing the changes for all of the boys

          Bb               F
Holding a candle up to my hand

           C
Making me feel so incredible
Interlude: (play intro riff with vocals)
F                Bb
  Little shivers shaking me everyday

F                     Bb
  But I could get the same thing anywhere

F           Bb
  So if she goes away

      Gm                C
Well, it's alright and I'm okay

     F            Bb
"Hey", she said, "Come back again tonight."

F              Bb
 And I said "I might, I might, I might."

F                 Bb
 She said "Well, that's alright.

Gm                 Am                 Dm
   If it's alright, it's alright with you

                      Gm                   C       Bb
then it's alright if it's alright with me
Verse 3:
                F                Bb
I waited for an hour last Friday night

                F
She never came around

C                Bb               F      F  Bb
 She took almost everything from me

                     F
I'm going through my closets

              Bb                    F
Trying on her clothes, almost everyday

C                Bb
 I could've been anyone you see

C              Bb         C
 I wish it was anyone but me

                    Gm              Bb
There's nothing but pills and ashes under my skin
Chorus 3:
Dm         Bb                     F
  American girls all weather and noise

            C                      Dm
Playing the changes for all of the boys

          Bb               F
Holding a candle up to my hand

           C
Making me feel so incredible