Welcome To Paradise
Green Day
Kerplunk! (1992) / Dookie (1994)
Lyrics: Billie Joe Armstrong
Music: Green Day
Tuning: 1/2 step down (sounds a semitone lower than written here)
Notes: Bridge has one guitar track doing some weird feedback, and
another guitar track doing the little solo, and then the chords.
The solo here is the one on the Dookie version, the one on
Kerplunk! is quite similar.

h = hammer-on
p = pull-off
b = bend
/ = slide up
\ = slide down
5 = power chord

Intro
E5 D5 A5 (x2 one guitar, x2 with band)
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-9------7------------------------------------------------------|
D|-9------7---7--------------------------------------------------|
A|-7------5---7--------------------------------------------------|
E|------------5--------------------------------------------------|

Verse
E5 D5 E5 E5 D5 G5 B5 (x2) G5 A5 B5
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-9----7----9------9----7---------------------------------------|
D|-9----7----9------9----7----5----9-------5----7--9-------------|
A|-7----5----7------7----5----5----9-------5----7--9-------------|
E|----------------------------3----7-------3----5--7-------------|

Chorus
E5 G5 A5 C5 E5 G5 B5 E5 G5 A5 C5 E5
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------5-----------------------------5-------------------|
D|-2---5---7---5----2---5---9----2---5---7---5-----2-x-2-x-2-2---|
A|-2---5---7---3----2---5---9----2---5---7---3-----2-x-2-x-2-2---|
E|-0---3---5--------0---3---7----0---3---5---------0-x-0-x-0-0---|

Bridge
(w/ feedback)
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------/5-4-3-2-3---------------------|
A|-/7----\2----3-2-0-2-3-2---0-----------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------|
(all palm mute) (x4, then x8 with guitar 2)
E G F# F E5 G5 F#5 F5
e|------4---------7----------6---------5-------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------4----------7---------6---------5----------------------|
D|-2-2-------5-5--------4-4-------3-3------------2---5---4---3---|
A|-----------------------------------------------2---5---4---3---|
E|-----------------------------------------------0---3---2---1---|


Order

Intro
Verse 1
Chorus
Intro chords x2
Verse 2
Chorus
Intro chords x4
Bridge
Verse 3
Chorus
Intro chords x4


Lyrics

Dear mother, can you hear me whining
It's been three whole weeks
Since I have left your home (Verse 1)
This sudden fear has left me trembling
Cuz now it seems that I am
Out here on my own, and I'm feeling so alone

Pay attention to the cracked streets
And the broken homes
Some call it the slums, some call it nice (Chorus)
I wanna take you through a wasteland
I like to call my home
Welcome to paradise

A gunshot rings out at the station
Another urchin snaps
And left dead on his own (Verse 2)
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's now
Feeling like my home, and I'm never gonna go

(Chorus)
(Bridge)

Dear mother, can you hear me laughing
It's been six whole months
Since I have left your home (Verse 3)
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's now
Feeling like my home, and I'm never gonna go

(Chorus)