Manic Street Preachers – Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart (Guitar)

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[Chords] E5 022xxx E5* x799xx C#5 x466xx A5 577xxx B5 x244xx C5 x355xx D5 x577xx A5* x022xx G5 355xxx [Sample] N.C. Next Thursday you're invited to watch Rising Tide's live coverage of a gala tribute in salute to Ronald Reagan. N.C. Host Haley Barbour joins special guest Lady Margaret Thatcher in celebrating the former president's 83rd birthday. N.C. Tickets are 1000 Dollars a plate but you can see the event free on GOP TV. [Intro] N.C. E5 E5 E5 E5 [Verse 1]
   E5                             E5
Images of perfection, suntan and napalm

    E5          E5
Grenada, Haiti, Poland, Nicaragua

E5                             E5
Who shall we choose for our morality

    E5                    E5
I'm thinking right now of Hollywood tragedy

E5                                   E5
Big Mac, smack, Phoenix, R., please smile y'all

E5                 E5
Cuba, Mexico can't cauterise our discipline

E5                          E5
Your idols speak so much of the abyss

E5                          E5                  E5*
Yet your morals only run as deep as the surface
[Chorus]
C#5            A5
Cool, groovy, morning, fine

 E5                B5         B5 C5
Tipper Gore was a friend of mine

C#5          A5
   I love a free country

     E5                      B5            B5
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
[Bridge]
                           E5
(Conservatives say) "There ain't no black in the Union Jack"

                       E5                                    E5
(Democrats say) "There ain't enough white in the Stars and Stripes"
[Break] E5 E5 E5 E5 [Verse 2]
E5                      E5
Compton, Harlem, a pimp fucked a priest

    E5                         E5
The white man has just found a new moral saviour

E5                     E5
Vital stats, how white was their skin

E5                        E5
Unimportant, just another inner-city drive-by thing

E5                                     E5
Morning, fine, serve your first coffee of the day

E5                       E5
Real privilege, it will take your problems away

E5                          E5
Number one, the best, no excuse from me

E5                      E5            E5*
I am here to serve the Moral Majority
[Chorus]
C#5            A5
Cool, groovy, morning, fine

 E5                B5         B5 C5
Tipper Gore was a friend of mine

C#5          A5
   I love a free country

     E5                      B5            B5
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
[Bridge]
  E5
Zapruder the first to masturbate

    E5
The world's first taste of crucified grace

                     E5*
(And we say) there's not enough black in the Union Jack

                      E5*                             C5
(And we say) there's so much white in the Stars and Stripes
[Middle] A5 E5* C#5 D5 A5 G5 B5 A5* E5* C#5 D5 A5 G5 B5 E5* C#5 D5 A5 G5 B5 E5* C#5 D5 A5 G5 B5 E5 [Outro]
 E5
Fuck the Brady bill

 E5
Fuck the Brady bill

   E5
If God made man they say

 E5
Sam Colt made him equal
D5