[00:09.260]Phone rings baby cries TV diet guru lies
[00:14.170]Good morning honey
[00:16.710]Go to work make up try to keep the balance up
[00:20.980]Between love and money
[00:23.560]She used to tie her hair up in ribbons and bows
[00:27.880]Sign her letters with X''''s and O''''s
[00:31.170]Got a picture of her mama in heels and pearls
[00:35.330]She''''s tryin'''' to make it in her daddy''''s world
[00:38.510]She''''s an American girl
[00:42.680]An American girl
[00:44.990]
[00:46.560]Slow dance second chance mama needs romance
[00:51.250]And an live-in maid
[00:54.010]Fix the sink mow the yard really isn''''t all that hard
[00:58.450]If you get paid
[01:00.810](She) used to tie her hair up in ribbons and bows
[01:05.250]Sign her letters with X''''s and O''''s
[01:08.420]Got a picture of her mama in heels and pearls
[01:12.750]She''''s tryin'''' to make it in her daddy''''s world
[01:16.030]An American girl
[01:19.930]An American girl
[01:21.880]
[01:23.490]Well she''''s got her God and she''''s got good wine
[01:27.280]Aretha Franklin and Patsy Cline
[01:31.780]
[01:32.520]She used to tie her hair up in ribbons and bows
[01:37.030]Sign her letters with X''''s and O''''s
[01:40.460]Got a picture of her mama in heels and pearls
[01:44.460]She''''s (gonna) to make it in her daddy''''s world
[01:47.810]An American girl
[01:51.700]An American girl
[01:55.090]She''''s an American girl
[01:58.320]
[02:02.790]She used to tie her hair up in ribbons and bows
[02:06.950]Sign her letters with X''''s and O''''s
[02:10.400]Got a picture of her mama in heels and pearls
[02:14.510]She''''s (gonna) to make it in her daddy''''s world
[02:17.530]She''''s an American girl,yeah
[02:21.570]
[02:24.970]But, She tied her hair up in ribbons and bows
[02:29.350]Signed her letters with X''''s and O''''s
[02:33.080]X''''s and O''''s
[02:36.800]X''''s and O''''s ( fading out )