Green Day - Welcome To Paradise

intro :
D#5 D#5 C#5 G#5 x4

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dear mother , can you hear me whining?
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it’s been three whole weeks
F#5 A#5
since i have left your home
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this sudden fear has left me trembling
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’cause now it seems that i Am out here on my own
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and i’m feeling so alone

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pay attention to the cracked streets
C5 B5
and the broken homes
D#5 C#5 A#5
some call it slums some call it nice
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i want to take you through a wasteland
C5 B5 D# A#
i’d like to call my home

( no chords ) D# D# C# G#
welcome to paradise

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a gunshot rings out at the station
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another urchin snaps and left dead on his own
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it makes me wonder why i’m still here
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but for some strange reason it’s now
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feeling like my home , and i’m never gonna go

D#5 C#5
pay attention to the cracked streets
C5 B5
and the broken homes
D#5 C#5 A#5
some call it slums some call it nice
D#5 C#5
i want to take you through a wasteland
C5 B5 D# A#
i’d like to call my home

welcome to paradise D#5 D#5 C#5 G#5 x4

[ bass solo ] ( play chords D#5 C#5 C#5 B5 as rhythm chords in background )

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dear mother , can you hear me laughing?
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it’s been six whole months since
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i have left your home
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it makes me wonder why i’m still here
D#5 C#5 F#5 A#5
but for some strange reason it’s now feeling like my home
F#5 A#5
and i’m never gonna go . . .

D#5 C#5
pay attention to the cracked streets
C5 B5
and the broken homes
D#5 C#5 A#5
some call it slums some call it nice
D#5 C#5
i want to take you through a wasteland
C5 B5 D#5 A#5
i’d like to call my home

welcome to paradise D#5 C#5 G#5 x2

paradise . . D#5 C#5 G#5 D#5