Chords for Green Day - 1995 Reading Festival

[Gb] New single, Geek Stink Breath means we [C] enjoy a single Geek Stink Breath.
And in true punk tradition, the song is about England, as guitarist Mike Pritchard explains.
It's a song named with a little tribute to your little country.
We like it.
It's not really even a tribute.
It's just that_
[Gm] Oh, to your wonderful country.
I'm sorry.
Well, you know, hey, hey, we're _ [G] gonna_
Oh, yeah.
Well, you know, I got my own country, you know.
The only problem is there's a volcano going on right now, so, you know, whatever.
But, [Bm] uh, but _ [G] it's_
You'll notice the name, _ if you've ever taken a sh_
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[Bb] [Ab] I've been [Db] around [G] and [Db] watched [Ebm] them too, [Ab] but [Eb] nothing's [Db] on.
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[Bb] _ [G] I've seen [Db] Jake [Abm] Channels [G] for [Eb] an hour or two.
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[Abm] _ Sweet old _ [G] Mothafucka's [Eb] for a [Bb] bit.
Sick [Abm] of [Db] all the same old [Eb] [Bb] shit.
In [Ab] the house [G] with the [Eb] [Bb] monsters and I'm [G] fuckin' [Db] right. _ _
[Bb] _ _ I'm gonna [Ab] make a _ [Eb] sunburst [Bb] right high.
[Ab] I'm gonna raise [Eb] the temperature [Bb] high.
_ [Ab] I'm gonna light [Eb] up the whole [Bbm] floor.
Gonna blow [Ab] up the [D] sky. _
[Eb] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
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_ Fill me up this velcro seat.
Get me [Db] moving. _ _
[Bb] _ [Ab] I'm Jerusalem, [G] can't you wait [Eb] by [Ab] [G] myself?
[Db] _ _ [C] _ [Abm] _
_ I'm [G] feeling [Db] like [G] a dog in [Bb] heat.
[Ab] _ Barred and [Db] dorsed on the summer [Eb] street.
[Ab] I [G] locked [Db] the door [G] to my [Eb] own cell and [G] I lost [Db] a chance. _ _
[Bb] _ _ I'm [Eb] gonna make a sunburst [Bb] right high.
Make [Eb] my own way to [Bb] paradise.
_ Show [Ab] them what [Eb] I'm made of [Bb] when I'm blind.
It's all [Abm] I see. _ _
[Eb] _ I got [Db] a _ Mothafucka.
[Eb] _ We're in [Db] a _ Mothafucka.
[Eb] _ Cause [Db] I'm one of a kind.
[Eb] So great [Db] for your [Ab] space.
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_ So [Abm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _
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[Abm] how many times have you toured?
[E] How long have you practised that look?
You looked at the camera all like, coy.
[B]
They're gonna give me shit the whole way through this interview.
_ That's my job.
_ [Gbm] _ This guy is sexy.
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_ [Ab] Now fellas.
[Gb] See I can do this.
[N] Just switch it on like that.
So why are you in Europe then?
To play some shows in Europe.
Touring for a month.
_ Starting from the 23rd. _
_ We came out here and we're going back on the 23rd of next _ month.
Is this the first time you've toured here?
No, the first tour we did in Europe was in_
Fall of 91.
Yeah. _
Winter of 91.
Three months.
_ _ _ Dead winter actually, you're right.
Definitely [Gm] winter.
It was a sickly tour. _
_ _ _ [Ab] Has it changed for you?
_ What's that, touring?
Yeah.
Well yeah. _
We have a big [Bb] band now.
_ Now we're sitting in the middle of a travelling barbecue or whatever.
A giant barbecue _ that we're calling a show I guess. _
It's a lot different than a club, that's for sure. _
Yeah.
There's [Eb] a sun instead of like [D] held [Bb] lights.
Instead of lights there's a sun.
It's gonna be_
It's like awful big and the rest of the tour is not gonna be anything like this.
It's kind of weird to [Eb] have the [F] _
[Cm] first show be like all [Bb] crazy, [F] ridiculous and big.
For a [Bb] first show.
Kind of man. _
_ So you [Eb] said that you wanted to leave America, [Cm] why's that?
_ _ [F] _ Been there too long [Bb] lately, you know.
Been there the last six months, it's time to go.
[Cm] Let me count the ways.
_ One one thousand.
[F] Two one thousand.
_ [Bb] _
_ Is this the first time you've played Reading?
Yes, this is the first time.
Why, the [Cm] bands usually play twice?
Yeah, _ [F] they normally play once a day, [Bb] but I've interviewed a bunch of bands [Eb] that play twice.
No, I mean not [F] like once a day, like once last year and then they play again the next year [Cm] after. _ _
_ [F] Sometimes they'll jump from stage to stage, [Bb] stuff like that.
Right, like start on the little, get to the big one, or [Cm] vice versa.
_ _ That would be pretty cool.
[F] _ But, _ _ [Eb] _ [Dm] does Reading Festival mean anything [C] special to you, [Bb] different from any other festival?
[F] Well, I think_
It's the only festival we play in.
Yeah, I think that just, [Bb] as far as, I mean this is my own personal opinion compared to [Eb] say like, _
the main festival [Ebm] that goes on in [Gb] America, [Bb] is that [Eb] a lot of people [F] in _ [Eb] England and [Bb] Europe and everywhere else,
it's [Eb] like they seem to, [F] _ _ [Eb] they're able to [Bb] communicate with each other [Eb] and be in [F] a large place with a lot of people at the same [Bb] time
so they know how [Eb] to _ _ [F] deal with that sort of [Eb] situation where there's a [Bb] lot of people grouped into one place.
_ So, _ that's what I [Eb] think. _
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[Bb] Yarrrgh!
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