Lyric and Chord Guitar Green Day - American Idiot

Intro: Ab C# F# C# Ab F# (4x)

Verse 1:

                                Ab C# F# C# Ab F#
Don't wanna be an American idiot
                                           Ab C# F# C# Ab
Don't want a nation that under the new media
                                    Ab C# F# C# Ab F#
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
                              Ab C# F# C# Ab
The subliminal mindfuck America

Chorus:
C#
Welcome to a new kind of tension
Ab
All across the alien nation
Eb                           Ab
Everything isn't meant to be okay
C#
Television dreams of tomorrow
Ab
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
Eb
Convincing them to walk you

Ab C# F# C# Ab F#
Ab C# F# C# Ab

Verse 2:

                                Ab C# F# C# Ab F#
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
                                 Ab C# F# C# Ab
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
                              Ab C# F# C# Ab F#
Now everybody do the propaganda
                                    Ab C# F# C# Ab 
And sing along in the age of paranoia

Back to Chorus

Ab C# F# C# Ab F#
Ab C# F# C# Ab
Ab C# F# C# Ab F#
Ab C# F# C# Ab

Solo:

E----------------------------------------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------------------------------------
G--10-10-10-10-10-10-8--6-----8-8-8-8--10-8--6--5--3-3-3-3h5-6-5\3-3---
D--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----x-x-x-x--x--x--x--x----------------------
A--8--8--8--8--8--8--6--4-----6-6-6-6--8--6--4--3----------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------------

E---------------------------8--------11--------
B--------9--------11------------------------9--
G--8--8-----8--8------8--8-----8--8------8-----
D----------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------

E--------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------------------------------9--
G--10-10-10-10-10-10-8--6-----8-8-8-8--10-8--6--5--3-3-3-3h5-6-5\3-3/8-----
D--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----x-x-x-x--x--x--x--x--------------------------
A--8--8--8--8--8--8--6--4-----6-6-6-6--8--6--4--3--------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bridge:

Ab C# F# C# Ab F#
Ab C# F# C# Ab

Verse 3:

Ab       C#   F#    C#   Ab   F#
Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Ab      C#      F#    C#     Ab
One nation controlled by the media.
Ab   C#   F#   C#  Ab   F#
Information nation of hysteria.

It's going out to idiot America.

Chorus:
C#
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
Ab
All across the alien nation.
Eb                           Ab
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
C#
Television dreams of tomorrow.
Ab
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Eb
Convincing them to walk you.

Outro:
Ab C# F# C# Ab
Ab C# F# C# Ab F#
Ab C# F# C# Ab
Ab C# F# C# Ab F#
Ab C# F# C# Ab
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