Green Day - American Idiot
Originally in G#, I play in G and use open chords in the chorus
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Vox on the 5
Don’t wanna be an American idiot G5C5F5C5G5F5
Don’t want a nation under the new mania G5C5F5C5G5
And can you hear the sound of hysteria? G5C5F5C5G5F5
The subliminal mind-blown America G5C5F5C5G5
C5Welcome to a new kind of tension
G5All across the alien nation
D5Where everything isn’t meant to be oG5kay
C5Television dreams of tomorrow
G5We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow
Hard stop after “argue”
D5For that’s enough to argue
Drums for one measure
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Well, maybe I’m the faggot, America G5C5F5C5G5F5
I’m not a part of a redneck agenda G5C5F5C5G5
Now everybody do the propaganda G5C5F5C5G5F5
And sing along to the age of paranoia G5C5F5C5G5
C5Welcome to a new kind of tension
G5All across the alien nation
D5Where everything isn’t meant to be oG5kay
C5Television dreams of tomorrow
G5We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow
Hard stop after “argue”
D5For that’s enough to argue
Drums for one measure
G5C5F5C5G5F5
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G5C5F5C5G5F5
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Solo if appropriate on chorus chords
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G5Don’t wanna C5be an F5AmeriC5can iG5diF5ot
G5One nC5ation controF5lled bC5y the G5media
G5InformC5ation aF5ge oC5f hysG5teriFa
Hard stop
G5It’s calling out to idiot America
C5Welcome to a new kind of tension
G5All across the alien nation
D5Where everything isn’t meant to be oG5kay
C5Television dreams of tomorrow
G5We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow
Hard stop after “argue”
D5For that’s enough to argue
No drum break this time
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