ROBIN SLOAN TABS
Song: IF YOU TOLERATE THIS YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE NEXT
Band: MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Album: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998)
I play this song acoustically but if you wish to play it like the song hit the note instead
of the chord (for example hit the A string for Am) and try and find the right distortion. Listen
to the song for where to play the distorted parts, which I think is the verses and the solo, the chorus
is chords.
[Intro] x2
Am Em F C G
(play intro once before each verse)
[Verse 1]
Am Em
The future teaches you to be alone
F C
The present to be afraid and cold
F
So if I can shoot rabbits
C G
Then I can shoot fascists
Am Em
Bullets for your brain today
F C
But we'll forget it all again
F
Monuments put from pen to paper
C G
Turns me into a gutless wonder
[Chorus]
Dm
And if you tolerate this
Am G
Then your children will be next
Dm
And if you tolerate this
Am G
Then your children will be next
Will be next, will be next, will be next
[Verse 2]
Am Em
Gravity keeps my head down
F C
Or is it maybe shame
F
At being so young
C G
And being so vain
Am Em
Holes in your head today
F C
But I'm a pacifist
F
I've walked La Rambas but
C G
Not with real intent
[Chorus]
Dm
And if you tolerate this
Am G
Then your children will be next
Dm
And if you tolerate this
Am G
Then your children will be next
Will be next, will be next, will be next
[Solo]
F C G G Dm Am G G
e|-------------------------------------------|
B|--------13-12------------------------------|
G|--12-14-------12---14----14----------------|
D|----------------12----15----14-----10--12--|
A|-------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------|
[Verse 3]
F C
And on the streets tonight
G
An old man prays
Dm Am
With newspaper cuttings
G
Of his glory days
[Chorus]
F
And if you tolerate this
C G
Then your children will be next
Dm
And if you tolerate this
Am G
Then your children will be next
Will be next, will be next, will be next
[Outro]
F C G G Dm Am G G x3
F C G