Band: Manic Street Preachers
Title: Of Walking Abortion
Album: The Holy Bible
Tabbed by: grieve

Thanks to Ian and Dave Watson

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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:
=======                     =======
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:
=======                     =======
D|-----------------------|  D|-----------------------|
A|--3/153/153/153/15--|  A|--1/131/131/131/13--|
E|-----------------------|  E|-----------------------|

Riff 5:
=======
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 (x355xx@1)         Bb5Riff (x133xx@1)3       Riff 4
Loser, liar, fake-tan phoney, no-one cares

C5 (x355xx@1)                Bb5 (x133xx@1)                   A5Riff (x022xx@1)3              Riff 4
Everyone is guilty, fucked-up,dunno why you poor little boy

Chorus
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   Eb5 (xx134x@1)   D5C#5      C5We (x355xx@1)are all of walking abortion
   Eb5 (xx134x@1)   D5 (xx023x@1)    C#5 (x133xx@4)        C5Shalom, (x355xx@1)shalom, we all love our children
   Eb5 (xx134x@1)   D5C#5      C5We (x355xx@1)are all of walking abortion
   Eb5 (xx134x@1)   D5 (xx023x@1)       C#5 (x133xx@4)     C5Shalom, (x355xx@1)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 (x355xx@1)                   Bb5Riff (x133xx@1)3                 Riff 4
Fragments of uniforms, open black ruins, a moral conscience

C5 (x355xx@1)                      Bb5 (x133xx@1)                        A5Riff (x022xx@1)3                    Riff 4
You've no wounds to show, so wash your car in your 'X' Baseball shoes



Chorus
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Eb5 (xx134x@1)   D5C#5      C5We (x355xx@1)are all of walking abortion
   Eb5 (xx134x@1)   D5 (xx023x@1)    C#5 (x133xx@4)        C5 (x355xx@1)
Shalom, shalom, we all love our children
   Eb5 (xx134x@1)   D5 (xx023x@1)C#5 (x133xx@4)   C5We (x355xx@1)are all of walking abortion
   Eb5 (xx134x@1)   D5 (xx023x@1)       C#5 (x133xx@4)     C5Shalom, (x355xx@1)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@1)               =  x022xx
Bb5 (x133xx@1)              =  x133xx
C5 (x355xx@1)               =  x355xx
C#5 (x133xx@4)              =  x466xx
D5 (xx023x@1)               =  x577xx
Eb5 (xx134x@1)              =  x688xx
Slide Down         =  /
Slide Up           =  
Bend note to pitch = (7)