When I was learning this song I realized that it wasn't in straight 4/4 time, but 
included occasional 
2/4 measures. This chart breaks the song down into measures, and clarifies the time signature 
changes. The chords are easy, but the structure is a little more complicated.

Hero
Family of the Year
Capo: 5
Tempo: 88
Count as slow 4

| C | C | 

|C         |C                      |Am  Em |
 Let me go  . I don't wanna be your . hero
|Em                  |F                     |
 . I don't wanna be a big man, I just wanna
|2/4 C                  |4/4 G              |C          |
     fight with everyone     else . . . Your masquerade;
|C                   |Am             Em  |
 . I don't wanna be a part of your parade
|Em                   |F          |
 . Everyone deserves a chance to
|2/4 C                 |4/4 G               |
     walk with everyone     else . . . while 
|C           |C                 |Am      Em    |
 holding down . a job to keep my . girl around
|Em                     |F                    |       
 . And maybe buy me some new strings and her a 
|2/4 C               |4/4 G        |    
     night out on the     weekends
|G               |C              |
 . . . And we can whisper things, 
|C                  |Am      Em     |
 . Secrets from our American dreams
|Em        |2/4 Em           |4/4 F                 |
 . . . Baby    needs some pro-----tection, but I'm a 
|2/4 C                 |4/4 G    | G |
     kid like everyone      else

  |C         |C                      |Am  Em |
So let me go  . I don't wanna be your . hero
|Em                  |F                     |
 . I don't wanna be a big man, I just wanna
|2/4 C                  |4/4 G              |
     fight like everyone     else

| C | C | Am Em | Em | F | C G/B | Am G | F | G |
  Oooohs

  |C         |C                      |Am  Em |
So let me go  . I don't wanna be your . hero
|Em                  |F                     |
 . I don't wanna be a big man, I just wanna
|2/4 C                  |4/4 G              |C          |
     fight with everyone     else . . . Your masquerade;
|C                   |Am             Em  |
 . I don't wanna be a part of your parade
|Em                   |F          |
 . Everyone deserves a chance to
|2/4 C                 |4/4 G          | G |
     walk with everyone     else . . .

| C | C | Am Em | Em | F |2/4 C |2/4 G |2/4 C |2/4 G | C  |



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