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Manic Street Preachers
Stay Beautiful 



Track 11 - Generation Terrorists 

Intro
 Guitar plays for three bars before bass enters

Fill 1
   G              
G-|--------------------------------------|
D-|-------12-12-12-----12-12-12-12-12-12-|
A-|----12-----------12-------------------|
E-|--------------------------------------|

Riff A
   D     A       F#m G
G-|--7-7--------|-----------|
D-|-------------|-7---------| Repeat
A-|------7-ho-9-|----10-10--|   x2
E-|-------------|-----------|

Verse 1
  The bass in the verse plays a D pedal note over the changing guitar
chords

Riff B
    D (pedal)         x6  C                 G
G-||-------------------||-----------------|-----------------|
D-||-------------------||-----------------|-----------------|
A-||:-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-:||-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|-----------------|
E-||-------------------||-----------------|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|


 |Riff A  | x2

Verse 2: Repeat Verse 1

Chorus
   Em                      G5                      D5
G-|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|---------|-
D-|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|---------|-
A-|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-5------|------5--|-
E-|-0---0--0--|-0---0--0--|-3---3--3--|-3---3--3--|--------|---------|-
                                                                       
     A                 x2
G-||-------------------||-
D-||-------------------||-
A-||:-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-:||-
E-||-------------------||-


    Em                     G5                   D5
G-||---------------------||-------------------||-------------------||-
D-||---------------------||-------------------||-------------------||-
A-||:-------------------:||:-----------------:||:-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-:||-
E-||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--||--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--||-------------------||-
                                                                       
     A                 x2
G-||-------------------||
D-||-------------------||
A-||:-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-:||
E-||-------------------||


 |Riff A  | x2

Verse 3: Repeat Verse 1

Verse 4: Repeat Verse 1

Chorus: Repeat Chorus

Solo
    G5                x2            x2
G-||-------------------||------------||
D-||-------------------||------------|| Repeat
A-||:-----------------:||:----------:||   x2
E-||--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--||--0---------||


Outro
   D5       A/C#    G5                     F#5     E5
G-|----------------|-------------|----------------|-------------|
D-|-^--------------|-------------|----------------|-------------| Repeat
A-|-5--5-5--4--4-4-|-------------|-^--------------|-------------|   x4
E-|----------------|-3--3-3--3-3-|-3--3-3--2--2-2-|-0--0-0--0-0-|

   D5
G-|-----------|-----------|---------|
D-|-^----^----|-^----^----|-^-------|
A-|-5----5----|-5----5----|-5-------|
E-|-----------|-----------|---------|

transcribed by Kevin Brown And Chris Stevens 


Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/m/manic_street_preachers/117015.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture devon Average	#1 by devon at Apr 14, 1970 at 4:35 AM EST
	I agree about the cutting of the line "fuck off." I think it is some kind of a statement against all the bands who pepper their songs with swear words just for the sake of it, or indeed just to be notorious.

No Picture Frank The Tizzl Wanna Be	#2 by Frank The Tizzle Town Tank Stallone at Aug 18, 1980 at 12:58 AM EST
	I love this song, it's just so full of the manics early anger and desire to make an impact, with lines like "don't fall in love cos we hate you still!". classic. And i reckon the way James cuts out the obvious omitted swear words with a cunning scrape of guitars only adds to that. The ending declaration "anxiety is freedom" also sounds very 1984, like the party statements from the book: "War Is Peace; Freedom Is Slavery; Ignorance Is Strength"

No Picture slapslappopslap Badass	#3 by slapslappopslap at Jun 25, 1989 at 6:18 PM EST
	"Has anyone ever seen this live? Thousands of people screaming "Why don't you just... FUCK OFF?" at the same time, it's brilliant! " exactly. thats pretty much the point of that bit, its so the crowd can yell fuck off at them

No Picture A Average	#4 by A Doyle at Jan 21, 1992 at 8:11 PM EST
	They'd have to remove more than that line in 'Yes'...what about the chorus?? Anyway, good song, great lyrics

No Picture Kc Wanna Be	#5 by Kc at Jul 17, 1994 at 3:38 AM EST
	A song for the disaffected youth.

No Picture Wanna Be	#6 by at Mar 25, 2001 at 3:41 AM EST
	I love this song. Awesome live too.

No Picture Vinnie Rhythm Player	#7 by Vinnie Valium at Jun 30, 2001 at 2:45 PM EST
	Has anyone ever seen this live? Thousands of people screaming "Why don't you just... FUCK OFF?" at the same time, it's brilliant!

No Picture jordan Average	#8 by jordan sjsjtkiris at Oct 5, 2006 at 5:13 PM EST
	Well yeah, it wasn't the manics' idea as such to drop the line, but the idea during recording was that it was to be released as a single, and so obviously a clean version had to be produced. But i still reckon its a cool way of doing so, while still being blatantly obvious what comes next in the line