Artist - Greenday
Song Title - American Idiot
Intro: Ab C# F# C# Ab F# (4x)
Verse 1:
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Don't wanna be an American idiot
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Don't want a nation that under the new media
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And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
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The subliminal mindfuck America
Chorus:
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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
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We're not the ones who're meant to follow
Eb
Convincing them to walk you
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Verse 2:
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Well maybe I'm the faggot America
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I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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Now everybody do the propaganda
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And sing along in the age of paranoia
Back to Chorus
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Ab C# F# C# Ab
Solo:
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Bridge:
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Verse 3:
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Don't wanna be an American idiot.
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One nation controlled by the media.
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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:
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Ab C# F# C# Ab F#
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Ab C# F# C# Ab F#
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