American Girl

American Girl — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Nashville number chart in the key of D, 4/4, 116 bpm. 9 sections. Read in order, comma to comma; two chords sharing a bar are joined by "then".

1. Intro, 16 bars: 1, 1, 1 (cue: drums), 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3 over 1, 2 over 1, 1, 2 over 1, 1, 1 over 2, 1 over 4, 1 over 5
2. V1, 8 bars: 1, 2, 4, 5, 1, 2, 4, 5
3. PreCh, 8 bars: 5, 1, 4, 2 minor, 5, 5, 5, 5
4. Ch, 8 bars: 4, 5, 1, 6 minor, 4, 5, 1, 1
5. V2, 8 bars: 1, 2, 4, 5, 1, 2, 4, 5
6. PreCh, 8 bars: 5, 1, 4, 2 minor, 5, 5, 5, 5
7. Ch, 8 bars: 4, 5, 1, 6 minor, 4, 5, 1, 1
8. Int, 4 bars: 4 (figure: dotted eighth) then 4 (figure: dotted eighth) then 4 (figure: eighth, quarter rest, eighth rest) then 4 (figure: sixteenth) then sharp 4 (figure: sixteenth), 5 (figure: dotted eighth) then 5 (figure: dotted eighth) then 1 (figure: eighth, quarter rest, quarter rest), 4 (figure: dotted eighth) then 4 (figure: dotted eighth) then 4 (figure: eighth, quarter rest, eighth rest) then 4 (figure: sixteenth) then sharp 4 (figure: sixteenth), 5 (figure: dotted eighth) then 5 (figure: dotted eighth) then 5 (figure: eighth, quarter rest, quarter rest)
9. Outro, 16 bars: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 5, repeat from here, 1, 2, 4, 5, 1, 2, 4, 5, repeat 2 times, note: repeat and fade