If You Tolerate This Your Children Will

Am | Em | F | C / B              (2x)


Am                        Em
The future teaches you to be alone
    F                        C     /B
The present to be afraid and cold
   F                 
So if I can shoot rabbits
C                    G       G 
Then I can shoot fascists

Am                        Em
Bullets for your brain today
    F                    C     /B
But we'll forget it all again
          F                      
Monuments put from pen to paper
C                       G        (Gsus4)
Turns me into a gutless wonder


Chorus:
           Dm
And if you tolerate this
Am                         G       Gsus4
Then your children will be next
           Dm
And if you tolerate this
Am                         G      
Then your children will be next
                   G
Will be next, will be next, will be next


Am | Em | F | C / B    

Gravity keeps my head down
Or is it maybe shame
At being so young
And being so vain

Holes in your head today
But I'm a pacifist
I've walked La Ramblas but
Not with real intent

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, will be next


Guitar Solo:  F | C | G | G(sus4)
              Dm | Am | G | G(sus4)


    F                 C
And on the streets tonight
           G        G(sus4)
An old man prays
     Dm           Am
With newspaper cuttings
             G        G(sus4)
Of his glory days


Chorus* :
           F
And if you tolerate this
C                           G       G(sus4)
Then your children will be next
           Dm
And if you tolerate this
Am                         G      
Then your children will be next
                   G
Will be next, will be next, will be next


     F      C       G     G(sus4)
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
    Dm     Am       G     G(sus4)
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
    F      C       G      G(sus4)
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
    Dm     Am       G     G(sus4)
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
    F      C      G