MANIC STREET PREACHERS - "If You Tolerate This..." Tablature

Song: If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next.
Artist: Manic Street Preachers
Tabbed By: Small Black Flower

A fantastic song and a huge hit for the band, and one of my favourites.
This is a complete tab as far as I know….

INTRO: Am Em F C F

VERSE 1
Am Em
The future teaches you to be alone
F C
The present to be afraid and cold.
Dm Am G
‘So if I can shoot rabbits then I can shoot fascists’

VERSE 2
Am Em
Bullets for your brains today
F C
But we’ll forget it all again
Dm
Monuments put from pen to paper
Am G
Turns me into a gutless wonder

CHORUS
Dm Am G
And if you tolerate this then your children will be next
Dm Am G
And if you tolerate this then your children will be next,
G G G
Will be next will be next will be next.

Am Em F C F

VERSE 3
Am Em F C
Gravity keeps my head down, or is it maybe shame
Dm Am G
At being so young and being so vain.
Am Em F C
Holes in your head today but I’m a pacifist I’ve
Dm Am G
Walked La Ramblas but not with real intent.

REPEAT CHORUS

SOLO

This is all played on the B string.

B-3/ 10~~~~~~~~~-8~~~~~~~~~13-12~~~~~~~~~~10/-6~~~~-10/-5~~~~~~-1/-3~~~~~

BRIDGE: played on distorted guitar on the A string.
8 7 2 0 3 2
And on the street tonight an old man plays,
8 7 3 5
With newspaper cuttings of his glory days.

REPEAT CHORUS

ENDING

Repeat the chords from the chorus 3 times and then end on one strum of F, C, G

That’s pretty much it.