American Idiot Tab par Green Day

INTRO

G C F CGF x4
(No chords for over lyrics in verse)

VERSE 1

Don't wanna be an american idiot
G C F CGF
Don't want a nation under the new media
G C F CGF
Can you hear the sound of hysteria?
G C F CGF
The subliminal mind f**k America
G C F CGF

CHORUS

[C] Welcome to a new kind of tension
[G] all across the alienation
[D] where everything isn't meant to be
[G] Okay
[C] Television dreams of tomorrow
[G] we're not the ones who're meant to follow
[D] for thats enough to argue
(solo drum fill)

VERSE 2
G C F CGF x2
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
G C F CGF
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
G C F CGF
Now everybody do the propaganda
G C F CGF
And sing along to the age of paranoia
G C F CGF

CHORUS

SOLO

C G F G x2

DRUM SOLO + LYRICS (intro riff plays quietly over this)

Don't wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
Calling out to idiot America

CHORUS

INTRO RIFF x3

CGF

Strumming for intro/verse riff:

|2-2-2-3---3-3-0-| |--0-3---2---0---|
|3-3-3-0---0-0-1-| |--1-0---3---1---|
|2-2-2-0---0-0-0-| |--0-0---3---0---|
|0-0-0-0---0-0-2-| |--2-0---0---2---|