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Band: Manic Street Preachers
Title: Of Walking Abortion
Album: The Holy Bible
Tabbed by: grieve
Thanks to Ian and Dave Watson
Any Comments etc or if u just want to talk about the Manics E-Mail me at colin109@hotmail.com
Intro
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Riff 4 and then a hard bend on E|-5-| do this a couple of times until
you start playing Riff 5.
Riff 1: Riff 2:
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D|---------5-4----| D|-----------5-4----------|
A|---7-5-7-----5--| A|-----7-5-7-----5--------|
E|-5------------5-| E|-5-6-------------6-(7)--|
Riff 3: Riff 4:
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D|-----------------------| D|-----------------------|
A|--3/153/153/153/15--| A|--1/131/131/131/13--|
E|-----------------------| E|-----------------------|
Riff 5:
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e|----5-X-X--5-X-X-|-6-X-X--6-X-X--6BEND|
B|----5-X-X--5-X-X-|-6-X-X--6-X-X--6BEND|
Verse
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Riff 1 Riff 2
Life is dead weights pendulum died
Riff 1 Riff 2
Pure or lost, spectator or crucified
Riff 1 Riff 2
Recognised truth, acedia's blackest hole
Riff 1 Riff 2
Junkies, winos, whores, this nations moral suicide
Bridge
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C5 Bb5
Riff 3 Riff 4
Loser, liar, fake-tan phoney, no-one cares
C5 Bb5 A5
Riff 3 Riff 4
Everyone is guilty, fucked-up,dunno why you poor little boy
Chorus
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Eb5 D5 C#5 C5
We are all of walking abortion
Eb5 D5 C#5 C5
Shalom, shalom, we all love our children
Eb5 D5 C#5 C5
We are all of walking abortion
Eb5 D5 C#5 C5
Shalom, shalom, there are no horizons
Verse
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Riff 1 Riff 2
Mussolini hangs from a butcher's hook
Riff 1 Riff 2
Hitler reprised in the worm of your soul
Riff 1 Riff 2
Horthy's corpse screened to a million
Riff 1 Riff 2
Tisu, revived, the horror of a bullfight
Bridge
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C5 Bb5
Riff 3 Riff 4
Fragments of uniforms, open black ruins, a moral conscience
C5 Bb5 A5
Riff 3 Riff 4
You've no wounds to show, so wash your car in your 'X' Baseball shoes
Chorus
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Eb5 D5 C#5 C5
We are all of walking abortion
Eb5 D5 C#5 C5
Shalom, shalom, we all love our children
Eb5 D5 C#5 C5
We are all of walking abortion
Eb5 D5 C#5 C5
Shalom, shalom, there are no horizons
Outro
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Riff 6 Riff 7
e------------------|---5--6--0--3---|
B------------------|---5--6--0--3---|
G------------------|----------------|
D------------------|----------------|
A---0--0--1--------|----------------|
E------------0--3--|----------------|
Riff 6 Riff 6
Little people in little houses
Riff 6 Riff 6
Like maggots, small blind and worthless
Riff 6 Riff 6
The massacred innocent blood stains us all
Riff 7 Riff 7
Who's responsible - you fucking are
Riff 7 Riff 7
Who's responsible - you fucking are
Riff 7 Riff 7
Who's responsible - you fucking are
Who's responsible - you fucking are
Who's responsible
end on the "A5" at the last line
CHORDS EADGBE
A5 = x022xx
Bb5 = x133xx
C5 = x355xx
C#5 = x466xx
D5 = x577xx
Eb5 = x688xx
Slide Down = /
Slide Up =
Bend note to pitch = (7)
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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bob Average |
#1 by bob fred at Sep 11, 1973 at 5:12 AM EST |
| Yeah, the major theme is the inferiority of men, principally in their capacity for violence and evil. The key line is 'Hitler reprised in the worm of your soul', in that all men carry the evil of big bad Adolf in them. | |
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Jeremy Average |
#2 by Jeremy Rees at Apr 17, 1975 at 2:18 AM EST |
| Nicky Wire: "Horthy was a Hungarian fascist military dictator before the second World War, and the devotion that a fascist dictator can achieve just shows such a terrible flaw in human nature. There's always a chance that it'll be revived, because there's a worm in human nature that makes us want to be dominated." From http://articles.richeyedwards.net/holybible.html | |
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Justin Wanna Be |
#3 by Justin at Feb 13, 1985 at 1:12 AM EST |
| Here's the opening monologue by Hubert Selby (an American novelist, wrote 'Last Exit To Brooklyn' amongst other things), for parity's sake: "I knew that some day I was gonna die, and I knew before I died, that two things would happen to me: that, number one, I would regret my entire life, and that, number two, I would want to live my life over again." A haunting confession, but I couldn't say with certainty what its relevance to the song is. The fourth line should also read: 'Recognised truth' and not 'recognise truth', by the way, which changes the meaning slightly. Misanthropic to say the least, the song is perfectly in keeping with the rest of the album. Partly it seems to be about turning a blind eye to atrocities, when, as Jeffjeffjeff says, sin is inherent in all of us ('Hitler reprised in the worm of your soul'). Like My Nothing, I don't think this song is an attack on men specifcally, it's an attack on all of humankind (although, yes, the title comes from the essay attacking men by Solanos) - the line is 'everyone is guilty', not 'men are guilty'. | |
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Lead Player |
#4 by Michael Leathers at Jan 4, 1988 at 3:33 AM EST |
| Anyone have interpretations of these lyrics? | |
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