21 Guns Chords

Saturday, January 9, 2010 comments
This is my first tab on here and I'm pretty sure it's right. Please feel free to comment.

Chords used:
Dm F A#m C A C5 C5* F5 D5 A#5 E5
e|--5----1-----1-----3----5--------------------------------------------|
B|--6----1-----3-----5----5--------------------------------------------|
G|--7----2-----3-----5----6-----5-----------7---3----9-----------------|
D|--7----3-----3-----5----7-----5---3---3---7---3----9-----------------|
A|--5----3-----1-----3----7-----3---2---3---5---1----7-----------------|
E|--5----1-----1-----3----5---------0---1------------------------------|


Intro: Dm - A# - F - C (x2)

Verse:
Dm A# F C
Do you know what's worth fighting for,
Dm A# F C
When it's not worth dying for?
Dm A# F C
Does it take your breath away
A# C
And you feel yourself suffocating?
Dm A# F C
Does the pain weigh out the pride?
Dm A# F C
And you look for a place to hide?
Dm A# F C
Did someone break your heart inside?
A# C5
You're in ruins

Chorus:
F5 C5* D5
One, 21 guns
C5 A#5
Lay down your arms
F5 C5
Give up the fight
F5 C5* D5
One, 21 guns
C5 A#5 F5 C5
Throw up your arms into the sky,
A#5 F5 C5
You and I

Verse:
Dm A# F C
When you're at the end of the road
Dm A# F C
And you lost all sense of control
Dm A# F C
And your thoughts have taken their toll
A# C
When your mind breaks the spirit of your soul
Dm A# F C
Your faith walks on broken glass
Dm A# F C
And the hangover doesn't pass
Dm A# F C
Nothing's ever built to last
A# C5
You're in ruins.

Chorus:
F5 C5* D5
One, 21 guns
C5 A#5
Lay down your arms
F5 C5
Give up the fight
F5 C5* D5
One, 21 guns
C5 A#5 F5 C5
Throw up your arms into the sky,
A#5 F5 C5
You and I

Bridge:
Dm A# F C
Did you try to live on your own
Dm A# F A
When you burned down the house and home?
Dm A# F A
Did you stand too close to the fire?
A#m C
Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone

Solo:
F5 - C5* - D5 - C5 - A#5 - F5 - C5 (x2)

A#5 - F5 - E5

Break:
Dm - A# - F - C (x2)

Verse:
Dm A# F C
When it's time to live and let die
Dm A# F C
And you can't get another try
Dm A# F C
Something inside this heart has died
A# C5
You're in ruins.

Chorus:
F5 C5* D5
One, 21 guns
C5 A#5
Lay down your arms
F5 C5
Give up the fight
F5 C5* D5
One, 21 guns
C5 A#5 F5 C5
Throw up your arms into the sky
F5 C5* D5
One, 21 guns
C5 A#5
Lay down your arms
F5 C5
Give up the fight
F5 C5* D5
One, 21 guns
C5 A#5 F5 C5
Throw up your arms into the sky,
A#5 F5 C5
You and I

21st Century Breakdown-Green Day

comments
intro: D, A, G

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.

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: A 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
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
WelI 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 Db B
Oh, dream, American dream
A G
I can't even sleep
A# D
From rainstorms till dawn
D Db B
Oh, bleed, America bleed
A G
Believe what you read
A#
From heroes and cons