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tuning low to high  e, a, d, g, b, e

intro - (bass arr. for guitar) clean with chorus and delay
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|---3-----1-----2-----1-----3-----1-----2---3--|
|-1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1--|  x1
|----------------------------------------------|

intro cont. w/ distortion
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|---------2-------5---8--------|
|-5-------2-------5---8---5----|
|-5-------0-------3---6---5----|  x1
|-3-----------------------3----|

verse - palm muted except for the first time each chord is played
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|---------2-------5---8------------------------|
|-5-------2-------5---8---5--5--5-5---5--------|  x2   
|-5-------0-------3---6---5--5--5-5---5--------|
|-3-----------------------3--3--3-3-0-3--------|
                          |____________|played without palm muting

during second part of verse this is played over the main rhythm part
|-15~~~~------------------17~~15~~--15-14-19-15-|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------| x1
|-----------------------------------------------|

chorus - all x 2
guitar 1
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-12-12-12-13-13-13-10-10-10-12-12-12-8-8-10-10-|
|-x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x-x-x--x--|
|-9--9--9--10-10-10-7--7--7--9--9--9--5-5-7--7--|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|
| guitar 2
|---|
|---|
|-7-|       
|-7-| played over guitar 1
|-5-|
|---|

guitar 1
|----------------------------------|
|-7-7-7-8-8-8-5-5-5-7-7-7-3-3-5-5--|
|-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x--|
|-4-4-4-5-5-5-2-2-2-4-4-4-0-0-2-2--|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|
|guitar 2
|---|
|---|
|-7-|
|-7-|
|-5-|
|---|

both guitars
|------------------|
|------------------|
|-7--7--7-8-7-5-7--|
|-x--x--x-x-x-x-x--|
|-5--5--5-6-5-3-5--|  x4
|------------------|

solo
bass arr. for guitar
|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|-0-0-0-------------3-3-3-2-2-3-3-5-7-5-3-2-3-|
|-------0-0-0-1-1-1---------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|

guitar
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-12-12-12-------------------15-15-15-14-14-15-15-17-19-17-15-14-15-|
|----------12-12-12-13-13-13----------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|

backing for solo
|---|
|---|
|-2-|
|-2-|
|-0-|
|---|
order:

intro
verse
chorus
verse
chorus
solo
chorus


lyrics:

Mr Lenin - waken the boy
Mr Stalin - bi-sexual epoch
Kruschev - self love in his mirrors

Brezhnev - married into group sex
Gorbachev - celibate self impotance
Yeltsin - failure is his own impotence

revol - revol
revol - revol - lebensraum - kulterkampf - raus - raus - fila - fila

Napoleon - childhood sweethearts
Chamberlain - you see God in you
Trotsky - honeymoon, serenade the naked

Che Guevara - you're all target now
Pol Pot - withdrawn traces, bye bye
Farakhan - alimony alimony

revol - revol
revol - revol - lebensraum - kulterkampf - raus - raus - fila - fila

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture camilo Average	#1 by camilo velasquez at Nov 14, 1971 at 3:11 AM EST
	Excellent. Kudos to you.

No Picture birdman Average	#2 by birdman ethdh at Sep 24, 1988 at 2:33 AM EST
	A step-by-step deciphering of this would be much appreciated.

No Picture robert Professional	#3 by robert cunningham at Jan 10, 1998 at 10:48 PM EST
	'Revol' is 'Lover' backwards. The song considers the fact that these politicians/revolutionaries were indeed bad lovers, with poor personal relationships. The chorus lyrics: "Lebensraum" is German for 'living space' a concept presented in Nazi Germany. "Kulturkampf" again is German, translating as roughly 'culture struggle'.

No Picture Brandon Average	#4 by Brandon Weathers at Sep 9, 2006 at 4:32 PM EST
	Richey said that the relevance of the political figures to the statements that follow are analogies. I like Dr Strangelove's interpretations, they stand up well. The second stanza's harder to interpret, possibly because I don't know enough about the political figures - Chamberlain is obviously the British Prime Minister who famously declared that he had established 'peace in our time' a year before WWII broke out (chuckle), so that line figures, and Che Guevara was assassinated, which might offer a literal translation for 'You're all target now', but I'm struggling with the rest. I'm intrigued to know what the connection between the leader of the Nation of Islam (Farrakhan) and alimony is. If there even is one. This is a song I like musically, and am baffled by lyrically - it's probably the most radio-friendly of all the songs on The Holy Bible.