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/ Manic Street Preachers / This Is My Truth To Tell Me Yours (1999) / Ready For Drowning guitar tab

READY FOR DROWNING

[Intro] G  D  Am  C	[X3]

C#		  C
Here's a true story
			 G
Said someone to me yesterday
				Em
Said he'd heard it in a taxi

C#				C
Must have had him at my mercy
	     G
Drown that poor thing
		  Em
Put it out of its misery

		      Am
Condemn it to its future
	   C			     G
Deny its history - deny its history

Em		    Am
So where are we going
          D			G	F#
We're not ready for drowning
Em 		    Am
So where are we going
	    D		      G
We're not ready for drowning

Em  C#

C#			  C
Look through my venetian blinds
		     G
dusting the past off of my mind
			 Em
Seeing orange everywhere

C#		  C
I'd go to Patagonia
		  G
but it's harder there
			  Em
I'll do anything to prove I care

	     Am	
Fascinated by good
             C
Destroyed by evil
                    G
What is there to believe in

Em		    Am
So where are we going
          D			G	F#
We're not ready for drowning
Em 		    Am
So where are we going
	    D		      G
We're not ready for drowning

Em  C#  [X4]

[Solo] C  G  Em
 Am  C  G

Em		    Am
So where are we going
          D			G	F#
We're not ready for drowning
Em 		    Am
So where are we going
	    D		      G
We're not ready for drowning

Em  Am  D
G  D	Am  C	[X2]

Thanks to: Arnstein Arnesen



READY FOR DROWNING

Intro & Outro: Some organ arr. for guitar
G, D, Am, F under this

E----------------------------------------------------------------
B--12--12-10-12-10------------------------10-10--10-----12-13--13
G------------------12--12--11--11-9-11-12------------12----------
D----------------------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------

E--12--12--10-12-10------
B-------------------13-12
G------------------------  x2
D------------------------
A------------------------
E------------------------

Verse:
C#m                C                        G
    Here's a true story  said someone to me yesterday
                            Em
    said he'd heard it in a taxi
C#m                         C                         G
    Must have had him at my mercy drown that that poor thing
                       Em
    put it out of it's misery
                       Am
    condemn it to it's future
                  C
    deny it's history
                  G
    deny it's history

Then this lead bit:

B--12-12-10--8-7-8-7---7----------------
G--------------------9---7-9-(11)--9-7-9

Chorus:

Em                 A5                  D5               G then G/F#
   So where are we going?   We are not ready for drowning.  x2

Middle 8:

Em, C#m  x 4    C, G, Em, Am, C, G  (lead bit).

G/F#-2x0033


Manic Street Preachers albums
2004 Lifeblood
2001 Know Your Enemy
1999 This Is My Truth To Tell Me Yours
1996 Everything Must Go
1994 The Holy Bible
1992 Generation Terrorists
This Is My Truth To Tell Me Yours tabs
01The Everlasting tabbass tab
02If You Tolerate This Your Children... tabbass tab
03You Stole The Sun From My Heart tabbass tab
04Ready For Drowning tabbass tab
05Tsunami tabbass tab
06My Little Empire tabbass tab
07I'm Not Working tabbass tab
08You're Tender And You're Tired tabbass tab
09Born A Girl tabbass tab
10Be Natural tabbass tab
11Black Dog On My Shoulder tabbass tab
12Nobody Loved You tabbass tab
13S.Y.M.M. tabbass tab

 

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