Green Day: American Idiot
Written by Green Day
From the album “American Idiot” (2004)
Album version guitar tuned down a semitone (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)
4/4, 185 bpm
American Idiot ‘RIFF’
1 + 2 + (3) + 4 + (1) + 2 3 4
Introduction: (RIFF)-(RIFF)-(RIFF)-(RIFF)
Verse 1
Don't want to be an American idiot. (RIFF)
Don't want a nation under the new media. (RIFF)
And can you hear the sound of hysteria? (RIFF)
The subliminal mind **** America. (RIFF)
Chorus
D5 (2)
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
A5 (2)
All across the alien nation.
E5 (2) A5 (2)
Where everything isn't meant to be o - kay.
D5 (2)
Television dreams of tomorrow.
A5 (2)
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
E5 (2)
For that's enough to argue.
(RIFF)-(RIFF)
Verse 2
Well maybe I'm the ****** America. (RIFF)
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda. (RIFF)
Now everybody do the propaganda. (RIFF)
And sing along to the age of paranoia. (RIFF)
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Green Day: American Idiot
[Chorus]
(RIFF)-(RIFF)-(RIFF)-(RIFF)
Guitar Solo (over chorus)
(RIFF)-(RIFF)
(RIFF)
Don't want to be an American idiot.
(RIFF)
One nation controlled by the media.
(RIFF)
Information age of hysteria.
…
It's calling out to idiot America.
[Chorus]
(RIFF)-(RIFF)-(RIFF)-(RIFF)…
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