Artist: Green Day Song: 21st Century Breakdown Album: 21st Century Breakdown Tuning: Half Step notes: Yes this isn't the best formatting for this, but bear with me. I'm going to change the was this is set up. Also, this is tuned a HALF STEP down, but the chords you're going to play the chords as if it was standard tuning which is very important on the last part of the song. Later on I will make these chords much better. Thanks. intro: D, A, G D A G Born into Nixon I was raised in hell D A G A welfare child where the teamsters dwelled D A G The last one born and the first one to run D A G My town was blind from refinery sun Bm G My generation is zero Bm G A I never made it as a working class hero D A G 21st century breakdown D A G I once was lost but never was found D A G I think I'm losing what's left of my mind D A G To the 20th century deadline D A G I was made of poison and blood D A G Combination is what I understood D A G From Mexico to the Berlin Wall D A G Homeland security could kill us all Bm G My generation is zero Bm G A I never made it as a working class hero D A G 21st century breakdown D A G I once was lost but never was found D A G I think I'm losing what's left of my mind D A G To the 20th century deadline Part 2: Amaj chord A D We are the cries of the class of '13 A D Born in the year of humility A D We are the desperate in the decline A Raised by the bastards of 1969 D G A D My name is 'No one' your long lost son Born on the 4th of July D G A D Raised in the barnyards of heroes and cons Left me for dead or alive D G A D There is a war that's inside my head That questions the results and lies D G A D I'm breaking my back till I'm better off dead We are not payed enough to survive Chord changes from D to G. Listen for change in song D G A D I am an engine, a worker, a pawn My debt to the status quo D G A D The scars on my hands and a means to an end It's all that I have to show D G A D I'm taking a loan on my sa ni ty For the redemption of my soul D G A D Well I am exempt from this tra ge dy And the 21st century fall G A D G A D I praise liber ty, the freedom to o bey G A D It's a song that strangles me G D A Well don't cross the line G, D, A (repeat x3) D C# B Oh, dream, American dream A G I can't even sleep Bb D From rainstorms till dawn D C# B Oh, bleed, America bleed A G Believe what you read Bb From heroes and cons
