Chords
American Girls

Key: F

Introduction:

                                   F                         Bb 
She comes out on Fridays every time
                                 F 
Stands out in a line
 C                                   Bb                       F              Bb  F  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
 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
 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: (same chords as chorus 1)
 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
                                 F                               Bb 
I waited for an hour last Friday night
                                 F 
She never came around
 C                               Bb                             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
American girls all weather and noise