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American Idiot

Green Day
ChordsKeyATuningHalf-Step Downbeginner186 BPM
★4.7(1k)

Chords in this song5

Intro

      
      
      
     

Verse 1

N.C. A D G D A G
Don't wanna be an American idiot.
N.C. A D G D A
Don't want a nation under the new media.
N.C. A D G D A G
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
N.C. A D G D A Bb
The subliminal mindfuck America.

Chorus

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
E N.C.
For that's enough to argue.

Instrumental

      
     

Verse 2

N.C. A D G D A G
Well, maybe I'm the faggot America.
N.C. A D G D A
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
N.C. A D G D A G
Now everybody do the propaganda.
N.C. A D G D A Bb
And sing along to the age of paranoia.

Chorus

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
E N.C.
For that's enough to argue.

Instrumental

      
      
      
      

Bridge

    
   
     
     

Verse 3

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
N.C.
It's calling out to idiot America.

Chorus

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.      

Outro

      
      
      
A D G D A N.C.

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