Green Day - Letterbomb: Guitar Chords

Learn to play "Letterbomb" on your guitar with our detailed chord guide and lyrics. This page provides everything you need to perform this song on the guitar, including lyrics integrated with chords, chord diagrams, and a key transposer to match your vocal range.

Learn Letterbomb Guitar Chords and Lyrics by Green Day

This section will guide you through each part of the song, providing the guitar chords placed directly above the lyrics for easy playing. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced player, these elements will help you perform "Letterbomb" smoothly on your guitar.

For easier playing, use our Simplify Chords feature to remove difficult chords like barre.

  E                 A
Where have all the bastards gone?
    F#           A            E
The underbelly stacks up ten high
    G#                 C#m
The dummy failed the crash test
    G#          C#m
Collecting unemployment checks
         A            F#           B  A B
Like a flunkie only along for the ride

Where have all the riots gone
As your city's motto gets pulverized?
What's in love is now in debt
On your birth certificate
So strike the fucking match to light this fuse

A
The town bishop is an extortionist
And he don't even know that you exist
B
Standing still when it's do or die
You better run for your fucking life

Chorus:
E        B                 A
It's not over 'till you're underground
E        B                     A
It's not over before it's too late
E            B
This city's burning
A                C
It's not my burden
E        B                     A
It's not over before it's too late

F#               A          E
There's nothing left to analyze

  E
Where will all the martyrs
             G#
go when the virus cures itself?
     C#m                                A
And where will we all go when it's too late?
Late!

E G#    C#m            A
    And don't look back

B                               E
You're not the Jesus of Suburbia
B                            E
The St. Jimmy is a figment of
A                                        E
Your father's rage and your mother's love
B
Made me the Idiot America

Chorus

  E               G#
She said I can't take this place
    C#m           A
I'm leaving it behind
       E               G#
Well she said I can't take this town
    C#m            A
I'm leaving you tonight


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Guitar Chord Diagrams

A

Guitar chord A

Am

Guitar chord Am

C

Guitar chord C

C#m

Guitar chord C#m

E

Guitar chord E

F#

Guitar chord F#

G#

Guitar chord G#

B

Guitar chord B

Here you can see detailed diagrams for each guitar chord used in the song. Utilize our key transposer to adjust the chords to a key that better fits your singing range. Simply select the desired key, and the chords throughout this page will update automatically, ensuring you can play and sing comfortably.

If you are also interested in learning how to play "Letterbomb" on the ukulele, check out the chords on our sister site: Ukulele Chords for "Letterbomb" by Green Day.

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