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Last Of The American Girls

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Words ByBillie Joe Armstrong
Music ByBillie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool
21st Century Breakdown recording sessions:Studio 880
Ocean Way Recording
Costa Mesa Studios
Jet Studios
ProducerButch Vig, Green Day
Live Performances 16
First Played 2009-04-07
Last Played 2010-09-13
Performances By Year
Staple (80-100%)
Regular (50-79%)
Sporadic (20-49%)

Rare (1-19%)
Inactive (0%)
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Song Notes

I started writing it for my wife, but there's elements of Hurricane Katrina and (cycling activists) Critical Mass. It adds those elements to one character who has this left wing strength.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Q Magazine)

Lyrics
She puts her makeup on like graffiti on the walls of the heartland She's got her little book of conspiracies right in her hand She is paranoid, endangered species headed into extinction She is one of a kind, well she's the last of the American girls She wears her overcoat for the coming of the nuclear winter She is riding her bike like the fugitive of Critical Mass She's on a hunger strike for the ones who won't make it for dinner She makes enough to survive for a holiday of working class She's a runaway of the establishment incorporated She won't cooperate, well she's the last of the American girls She plays her vinyl records, singing songs on the eve of destruction She's a sucker for all the criminals breaking the laws She will come in first for the end of western civilization She's an endless war, she's a hero for the lost cause Like a hurricane in the heart of the devastation She's a natural disaster, she's the last of the American girls She puts her makeup on like graffiti on the walls of the heartland She's got her little book of conspiracies right in her hand She will come in first for the end of western civilization She's a natural disaster, she's the last of the American girls Aw, yeah Alright Aw, yeah
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Billboard Charts
  • #26 Alternative Airplay
  • #34 Hot Rock
  • #34 Rock & Alt Airplay
GreenDay.fm Charts
#136 Green Day Songs
Week of April 24, 2026
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