Introdução: A D G D A G |------->(2X)
            A D G D A   

Verso:

A D G D A
              Don't wanna be an American Idiot.
A D G D A G
              Don't want a nation that under the new media.
A D G D A
              And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
A D G D A G
              The subliminal mind fuck America.
A D G D A


Refrão:

D
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
A
All across the alienation.
E                            A
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
D
Television dreams of tomorrow.
A
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
E
For that's enought to argue.


Verso:

A D G D A
              Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
A D G D A G
              I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
A D G D A
              Now everybody do the propaganda.
A D G D A G
              And sing along in the age of paranoia.
A D G D A


Refrão:

D
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
A
All across the alien nation.
E                            A
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
D
Television dreams of tomorrow.
A
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
E
For that's enough to argue.

verso : A D G D A 4X

Base do solo : D A E A

A D G D A 2X


A D G D A
Don't wanna be an American Idiot.
A D G D A 
One nation controlled by the media.
A D G D A
Information age of hysteria.

It's going out to Idiot America.

Refrão:

D  
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
A
All across the alien nation.
E                            A
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
D
Television dreams of tomorrow.
A
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
E
For that's enough to argue.

A D G D A 4X