Stay Beautiful Chords & Tabs
Manic Street Preachers
Stay Beautiful
Track 11 - Generation Terrorists
Intro
Guitar plays for three bars before bass enters
Fill 1
G
G-|--------------------------------------|
D-|-------12-12-12-----12-12-12-12-12-12-|
A-|----12-----------12-------------------|
E-|--------------------------------------|
Riff A
D A F#m G
G-|--7-7--------|-----------|
D-|-------------|-7---------| Repeat
A-|------7-ho-9-|----10-10--| x2
E-|-------------|-----------|
Verse 1
The bass in the verse plays a D pedal note over the changing guitar
chords
Riff B
D (pedal) x6 C G
G-||-------------------||-----------------|-----------------|
D-||-------------------||-----------------|-----------------|
A-||:-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-:||-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|-----------------|
E-||-------------------||-----------------|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|
|Riff A | x2
Verse 2: Repeat Verse 1
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/manic_street_preachers/stay_beautiful_btab.html ]
Chorus
Em G5 D5
G-|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|---------|-
D-|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|---------|-
A-|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-5------|------5--|-
E-|-0---0--0--|-0---0--0--|-3---3--3--|-3---3--3--|--------|---------|-
A x2
G-||-------------------||-
D-||-------------------||-
A-||:-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-:||-
E-||-------------------||-
Em G5 D5
G-||---------------------||-------------------||-------------------||-
D-||---------------------||-------------------||-------------------||-
A-||:-------------------:||:-----------------:||:-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-:||-
E-||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--||--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--||-------------------||-
A x2
G-||-------------------||
D-||-------------------||
A-||:-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-:||
E-||-------------------||
|Riff A | x2
Verse 3: Repeat Verse 1
Verse 4: Repeat Verse 1
Chorus: Repeat Chorus
Solo
G5 x2 x2
G-||-------------------||------------||
D-||-------------------||------------|| Repeat
A-||:-----------------:||:----------:|| x2
E-||--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--||--0---------||
Outro
D5 A/C# G5 F#5 E5
G-|----------------|-------------|----------------|-------------|
D-|-^--------------|-------------|----------------|-------------| Repeat
A-|-5--5-5--4--4-4-|-------------|-^--------------|-------------| x4
E-|----------------|-3--3-3--3-3-|-3--3-3--2--2-2-|-0--0-0--0-0-|
D5
G-|-----------|-----------|---------|
D-|-^----^----|-^----^----|-^-------|
A-|-5----5----|-5----5----|-5-------|
E-|-----------|-----------|---------|
transcribed by Kevin Brown And Chris Stevens