American Idiot – Green Day

American Idiot Chords

Performed by Green Day

Tuning: D# standard

Intro Music:

[ A5   D5   G5   D5   A5  G5 ] – 4

Play the intro chords in verse.

Verse 1

Don’t wanna be an
American idiot ?
Don’t want a nation
Under the new mania ?
And can you hear the
Sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind
Fu*k America

D5
.. Welcome to a new kind of
Tension
A5
.. All across the alien nation
E5
… Where everything isn’t
………………………..A5
Meant to be okay
D5
.. Television dreams of tomorrow
A5
… We’re not the ones
Who’re meant to follow
E5
.. For that’s enough to argue

Music:

Verse 2

Well, maybe I’m the
Fagg*t, America
I’m not a part of a
Redneck agenda
Now everybody do the
Propaganda
And sing along to the
Age of paranoia

D5
.. Welcome to a new kind of
Tension
A5
.. All across the alien nation
E5
… Where everything isn’t
……………………….A5
Meant to be okay
D5
.. Television dreams of tomorrow
A5
… We’re not the ones
Who’re meant to follow
E5
.. For that’s enough to argue

Music:

Don’t wanna be an
American idiot
One nation controlled
By the media
Information age of hysteria
It’s calling out to
Idiot America

D5
.. Welcome to a new kind of
Tension
A5
.. All across the alien nation
E5
… Where everything isn’t
……………………….A5
Meant to be okay
D5
.. Television dreams of tomorrow
A5
… We’re not the ones
Who’re meant to follow
E5
.. For that’s enough to argue

End