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Green Day – Holy Toledo Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

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[Verse 1]
A                      C#
  I wanna go where the trouble
  begins
        D             Bm
And the morning after smells
            E
just like a dirty ashtray
A
  Oh, give me shame,
          C#
  lock me in the shower
    F#m           D          Dm
The penitentiary, elementary school
for losers
Bm                        D
If this is how it’s gonna end,
        Bm
then it feels alright
E                           A
Baby, let’s get sick again

[Chorus]
A
We’re hell raisers,
C#
death wish cravers
F#m                D
We’re running with razor blades
A             C#
Party favors, sex with strangers
F#m                    D
We don’t care what the neighbors
say
Bm                           D
Well, this is how it’s gonna end
          Bm
‘Cause it feels alright
D               E           A
Baby, let’s get sick again

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[Verse 2]
      F#m      A
We’re crawling out of
    E          F#m
the dead man’s bed
      D              A
Well, we don’t wanna know
      D              A
Well, we don’t wanna know
      F#m     A
We’re killing my
     E       F#m
song just to live
      D              A
Well, we don’t wanna go
      D              A
Well, we don’t wanna go

[Chorus]
A
We’re hell raisers,
C#
death wish cravers
F#m                D
We’re running with razor blades
A             C#
Party favors, sex with strangers
F#m                    D
We don’t care what the neighbors
say
Bm                           D
Well, this is how it’s gonna end
          Bm
‘Cause it feels alright
D               E
Baby, let’s get sick again

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[Bridge]
A  C#  F#m  D
A  C#  F#m  D
A  C#  F#m  D
A  C#  F#m  D

[Chorus]
N.C.
We’re hell raisers,
death wish cravers
N.C.
We’re running with razor blades
A             C#
Party favors, sex with strangers
F#m                    D
We don’t care what the neighbors
say
Bm                           D
Well, this is how it’s gonna end
          Bm
‘Cause it feels alright
D               E           A*
Baby, let’s get sick again

How to play Holy Toledo: key, chords and progression

These are the chords for Holy Toledo by Green Day on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

To play Holy Toledo by Green Day, think in A major (three sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯). It takes 7 chords: A, C#, D, Bm, E, F#m and Dm.

Listen for A – C# – F#m – D (I – III – vi – IV in A major): the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is doh – mi – lah – fah. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Good to know: C#, Bm and F#m are the tricky part on guitar (barre or movable shapes). Slow the change down until it is clean; on piano and ukulele they are simpler.