Title: If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Artist: Manic Street Preachers
Album: ????? (1998)
Tuning: Standard: EADGBE

[Intro] Am Em F C  [X2]

Am                        Em
The future teaches you to be alone
    F                                C
The present to be afraid and cold
       F                           C
'So if I can shoot rabbits then I can
      G
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

             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

Am      Em      F       C

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

Am                Em
Holes in your head today
    F          C
but I'm a pascifist
     F
I've walked La Ramblas
C                          G
but not with real intent

             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] Dm Am G  [X2]

     Dm              Am
'And on the street tonight-
           G
An old man plays
     Dm                 Am          G
with newspaper cuttings of his glory days

             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