If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 


 




Music by James-Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore
Lyrics by Nicholas Jones
Transcribed by Rohan Armstrong (fadeout@freenetname.co.uk)


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DEFINITIONS
s - slide
~ - vibrato

STANDARD TUNING  EADGBE
            Am   x02210
            Em   022000
             F   133211
             C   x32010
           C/B   x2x010
             G   320033
            Dm   xx0231--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intro
*****
E------------------
B------------------
G--------0-----0---
D-------0-0---0-0--
A-3-3-3-----3-2----
E------------------

Am Em F C C/B

Verse 1
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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


Verse 2 (same as verse 1)
*******
Bullets for your brain today
But we'll forget it all again
Monuments put from pen to paper 
Turns me into a gutless wonder

Chorus
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            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

Am Em F C C/B

Verse 3 (same as verse 1)
*******
Gravity keeps my head down or
Is it maybe shame
At being so young and being so vain

Verse 4 (same as verse 1)
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Holes in your head today but
I'm a pacifist
I've walked La Ramblas but not
With real intent

Chorus (same as previous chorus)
*****
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next, will be
next, will be next


Guitar solo
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F   
G-2s14-12-17-16~~~~~~~~~--14s10--14s9--5-7~~~~~~~~~-

Bridge        
    F                C                 G
A-s8~~~------------7-------7s----------2--0-3-2-
And on the street tonight an old man plays

       Dm          Am                    G
A------5-----------0-------
With newspaper cuttings 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, wil be next 


outro
*****

  F    C       G
A-8-7s---3-2--0-3-2----
                              (x3)
       Dm   Am    G
A------5-----------0---   

F    C     G