If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next original guitar chords by
Manic Street Preachers

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Key: C major

Intro 1

Am

Em

F

C

G/B

Am

Em

F

C

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"

Verse 2

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 1
Dm Dm 
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And if you tolerate this
Am Am 
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G G 
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then your children will be next
Dm Dm 
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And if you tolerate this
Am Am 
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G G 
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then your children will be next
Will be next, will be next, will be next
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G/B G/B 
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Verse 3

Am

Em

Gravity keeps my head down

F

C

Or is it maybe shame

F

C

G

At being so young and being so vain

Verse 4

Am

Em

Holes in your head today

F

C

But I'm a pacifist

F

I've walked La Ramblas

C

G

but not with real intent

Chorus 2

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

Solo 1

Will be next, will be next, will be next

F

C

G

G

Will be next

Dm

Am

G

G

Bridge 1

F

C

And on the street tonight

G

Dm

Am

An old man plays with newspaper cuttings

G

of his glory days

Chorus 3

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

Outro 1
Will be next, will be next, will be next
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