4 Chords used in the song: G, C, F, D
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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---|
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About this song: American Idiot
"American Idiot" is a song by American rock band Green Day, and is the first single from their seventh album, American Idiot. According to the American Idiot Songfacts, Billie Joe Armstrong was inspired to write this song after hearing a jingoistic Lynyrd Skynyrd song being played on his car radio, whilst driving to the studio. Released in 2004, the single peaked at #61 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Green Day's first Billboard Hot 100 chart entry (excluding singles that charted on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart), helping revive the band's career.