American Idiot Tab

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Band:Green Day
Song:American Idiot
Album:American Idiot
Guitar/Vocals:Billie Joe
Richard Hurtado

(Note:The times are only for the guitar parts
not the lyrics)

(clean) (0:00-0:02)
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(distorted) (0:02-0:05)
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(distorted) (0:05-0:07)
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(distorted) (0:07-0:10)
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(distorted) (0:13-0:16)
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Dont want to be an american idiot.

(distorted) (0:17-0:20)
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Dont want a nation under the new media.

(distorted) (0:23-0:26)
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And can you hear the sound of hysteria?

(distorted) (0:28-0:31)
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The subliminal mindfuck america.

(distorted) (0:31-0:49)
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G|-66666666------------88888888------------66666666------------88888888---||
D|-66666666--66666666--88888888--66666666--66666666--66666666--88888888---||
A|-44444444--66666666--66666666--66666666--44444444--66666666--66666666---||
E|-----------44444444------------44444444------------44444444-------------||
Welcome to a new kind of tension.All across the alien nation.Everything isnt meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tommorow.We're not the ones who're meant to follow.For thats enough to argue.

(distorted) (0:51-0:54)
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(distorted) (0:54-0:56)
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(distorted) (0:59-1:02)
E|----------------------------||
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D|-666--666--44--6--6--4------||
A|-666--444--44--4--6--4------||
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Well maybe I'm the faggot america.

(distorted) (1:04-1:07)
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I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.

(distorted) (1:09-1:12)
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D|-666--666--44--6--6--4------||
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Now everybody do the propaganda.

(distorted) (1:15-1:17)
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And sing along in the age of paranoia.

(distorted) (1:18-1:35)
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G|-66666666------------88888888------------66666666------------88888888---||
D|-66666666--66666666--88888888--66666666--66666666--66666666--88888888---||
A|-44444444--66666666--66666666--66666666--44444444--66666666--66666666---||
E|-----------44444444------------44444444------------44444444-------------||
Welcome to a new kind of tension.All across the alien nation.Everything isnt meant to be okay. 
Television dreams of tommorow.We're not the ones who're meant to follow.For thats enough to argue.

(distorted) (1:38-1:40)
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(distorted) (1:40-1:43)
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(distorted) (1:43-1:45)
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(distorted) (1:45-1:48)
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SOLO (distorted) (1:48-1:58)
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G|---------------------------------------------888-101010-121212-13/15/13-||
D|---------------------------888-10-11-10-8-6-----------------------------||
A|-888888-6-4--6666--8-6-4-3----------------------------------------------||
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------||

(1:58-2:07)
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A|-888888-6-4--6666--8-6-4-3--------------------------------------||
E|----------------------------------------------------------------||


(clean) (2:07-2:09)
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G|------666------6------------||
D|-666--666--44--6--6--4------||
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(clean) (2:09-2:11)
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D|-666--666--44--6--6--4------||
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(clean) (2:11-2:14)
E|----------------------------||
B|----------------------------||
G|------666------6------------||
D|-666--666--44--6--6--4------||
A|-666--444--44--4--6--4------||
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Dont want to be an american idiot.


(clean) (2:14-2:16)
E|----------------------------||
B|----------------------------||
G|------666------6------------||
D|-666--666--44--6--6--4------||
A|-666--444--44--4--6--4------||
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One nation controlled by the media.


(clean) (2:16-2:19)
E|----------------------------||
B|----------------------------||
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D|-666--666--44--6--6--4------||
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Information age of hysteria.

(no guitar) It's going out to idiot america.

(distorted) (2:22-2:39)
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G|-66666666------------88888888------------66666666------------88888888---||
D|-66666666--66666666--88888888--66666666--66666666--66666666--88888888---||
A|-44444444--66666666--66666666--66666666--44444444--66666666--66666666---||
E|-----------44444444------------44444444------------44444444-------------||
Welcome to a new kind of tension.All across the alien nation.Everything isnt meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tommorrow.We're not the ones who're meant to follow.For thats enough to argue.


(clean) (2:39-2:42)
E|----------------------------||
B|----------------------------||
G|------666------6------------||
D|-666--666--44--6--6--4------||
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(distorted) (2:42-2:45)
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(distorted) (2:45-2:47)
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(distorted) (2:47-2:50)
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Outro (clean) (2:50-2:52)
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distorted    ..  .  .