Well she was an American girl, raised on promises. She coul… - Tom Petty

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Well she was an American girl, raised on promises.
She couldn't help thinkin' that there was a little more to life somewhere else.
After all, it was a great big world with lots of places to run to.
Yeah, and if she had to die tryin', she had one little promise she was gonna keep.

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Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the frontman of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys.

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Birth Name: Thomas Earl Petty

Alternative Names: Charlie T. Wilbury Jr. • Muddy Wilbury • Charlie T. Jnr Wilbury

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Yeah and it's over before you know it
It all goes by so fast
Yeah the bad nights take forever
And the good nights don't ever seem to last

It's alright if you love me,
It's alright if you don't.
I'm not afraid of you runnin' away,
Honey I get the feeling you won't.

I'll be the boy in the corduroy pants.
You be the girl at the high school dance.

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