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
|---|
|---|
|---|
|-5-| played over guitar 1
|-5-|
|-3-|
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/manic_street_preachers/revol_tab.html ]
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
|---|
|---|
|---|
|-5-|
|-5-|
|-3-|
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
|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|-------------------3-3-3-2-2-3-3-5-7-5-3-2-3-|
|-5-5-5-0-0-0-1-1-1---------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
guitar
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------15-15-15-14-14-15-15-17-19-17-15-14-15-|
|-17-17-17-12-12-12-13-13-13----------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
backing for solo
|---|
|---|
|---|
|-5-|
|-5-|
|-3-|
order:
intro
verse
chorus
verse
chorus
solo
chorus
lyrics: (with thanks to paul)
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
revol
