Intro: G#   C#   F#   C#  G#  F# 

   G#    C#    F#    C#   G#  F#
1. Don't wanna be an American idiot 
   Don't want a nation that under new media 
   And can you hear the sound of hysteria? 
   The subliminal mindfuck America 

   C# 
R: Welcome to a new kind of tension 
   G# 
   All across the alien nation 
   D#                           G#
   Everything isn't meant to be okay 
   C# 
   Television dreams of tomorrow 
   G#
   We're not the ones who're meant to follow 
   D#
   Convincing them to walk you 

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

R: Welcome to a new kind...

3. Don't wanna be an American idiot 
   Don't want a nation controlled by the media 
   Information nation of hysteria 
   It's going out to idiot America. 

R: Welcome to a new kind...