Green Day – Last Of The American Girls (Guitar)

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21st Century Breakdown 2009 Reprise Records Submitted by: [email protected] Chords used: B x24442 F# 244322 E 022100 Em 022000 B7 x21202 [Intro] B B [Verse 1]
             B
She puts her makeup on
Like graffiti on the
             E
walls of the heartland

              B
She's got her little
book of conspiracies
             F#
Right in her hand

       B
She is paranoid like
Endangered species
              E
headed into extinction

       B
She is one of a kind

          F#
She's the last of

             B
the American girls
[Verse 2]
              B
She wears her overcoat
For the coming of
            E
the nuclear winter

       B
She is riding her bike
Like a fugitive
            F#
of critical mass

           B
She's on a hunger strike
For the ones who won't
            E
make it for dinner

           B
She makes enough to survive

                         F#
For a holiday of working class
[Chorus 1]
        B
She's a runaway of the

  B7                 E    Em
establishment incorporated

            B
She won't cooperate

          F#
She's the last of
B E B E B E
E
the American girls

Guitar 2: "girls..."
      B         E         B        E
e|-----2---|-4---2---|-----2---|-4---2-|
B|-4-4---4-|---4---4-|-4-4---4-|---4---|
G|---------|---------|---------|-------|
D|---------|---------|---------|-------| x2
A|---------|---------|---------|-------|
E|---------|---------|---------|-------|
[Verse 3] She plays her
B
vinyl records
Singing songs on the
          E
eve of destruction

        B
She's a sucker for
All the criminals
             F#
breaking the laws

         B
She will come in first
For the end of the
              E
western civilization

         B
She's an endless war
Like a hero for
         F#
the lost cause
[Chorus 2]
       B
Like a hurricane

       B7
In the heart of

         E     Em
the devastation

        B
She's a natural disaster

          F#
She's the last of
B E B E B E
E
the American girls
[Guitar Solo] B E B F# x2
Guitar 2:
         B               E               B              F#
e|---------------|-------4h5p4---|---------------|--------------|
B|-------4h5p4---|---5---------5-|-------4h5p4---|--------------|
G|---4---------4-|-4---4---------|---4---------4-|-------6-4-3--|
D|-4---4---------|---------------|-4---4---------|---4----------| x2
A|---------------|---------------|---------------|-4---4--------|
E|---------------|---------------|---------------|--------------|
         x2             x2               x2           x2
[Chorus 3]
             B
She puts her makeup on

        B7
Like graffiti on the

             E        Em
walls of the heartland

              B
She's got her little

            B7
book of conspiracies

             F#
Right in her hand

         B
She will come in first

        B7
For the end of the

              E     Em
western civilization

        B
She's a natural disaster

          F#
She's the last of
B E B E B E
E
the American girls
B E B E B E B E B