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Version 1 Version 2ROBIN 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 [Interlude] Am Em F C G [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 plays 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