Song: Ready For Drowning
Artist: Manic Street Preachers
Date: 28/6/2002
Tabbed By: Small Black Flower                                                 

Intro Chords:  G   D   Am   F

This intro was originally for an organ part, but you can play it on guitar.

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G---------------------------12---12--11--11--9--11--9--12---12-------
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A--------------------------------------------------------------------
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VERSE 1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

C#M               C                       G                              Em       
   Here’s a true story said someone to me yesterday said he heard it in a taxi
C#M                        C                G                            Em
   Must have had him at my mercy drown that poor thing put it out of its misery
                    Am             C                G        
Condemn it to its future deny its history- deny its history.

PRE CHORUS RIFF

B--12--12--12--12--10--8--10--8--7--5--7--5--3--5--7--3--5--             Em

CHORUS                
                 Am              D             G    G/F#    Em        
So where are we going we’re not ready for drowning
                 Am              D              G   G/F#    Em           
So where are we going we’re not ready for drowning

VERSE 2: SAME AS VERSE 1
PRE CHORUS RIFF
CHORUS

MIDDLE 8
C#M                      Em
Ahhhhhhhhh               Haaaaaaaaaaaaaah    (repeat 4 times)      C#M X2 BARS

Then its:  C     G    Em    Am      C          G

REPEAT PRE CHORUS RIFF
REPEAT CHORUS

THE ENDING IS SAME AS INTRO PART
END ON 12TH FRET ON B STRING

VERSE 2 WORDS

Look through my venetian blinds dusting the past off my mind seeing orange everywhere.
I’d go to Patagonia but its harder there I’ll do anything to prove I care.
Fascinated by good destroyed by evil what is left to believe in?

That’s it, just listen to the song and you’ll pick it up quite easily.