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Author/Artist: NoFX
Title: Idiots Are Taking Over
Album: War on Errorism
Transcribed by: John Cameron
Email: [email protected]

Hey.
Besides the regular notes (/ = slide up, x = palm mute), there's a few more
extra special notes this time around.
1) This song is FAST. Really, really fast.
2) The ska part works just as well with downstrokes as upstrokes, but upstrokes
   are more ska-ish, plus they give you a warm fuzzy feeling that you're playing
   the song just right.
3) Some of these chords may look funny or be in weird places, but that's just
   how the song goes.
4) This is a very disorganized tab/chord sheet. I tried to make it clear, but it
   just didn't take. Sorry.
5) Any correction would be appreciated, that applies to the whole
   song. Thanks.
6) Want it to sound closer? Throw in a pick scrape and a scream at the end of
   any of the verses except for the ones leading into the ska part or the outro.
7) The Rhythm section below is for the verse only. The ska part is a different,
   more rhythmic sort of..... rhythm.
8) Sorry for the messiness.

Cheers!




Techinical Stuff
   
  Chords                                       Ska Chords    Rhythm (4/4 time)
  F#5(8va) D5   A5   D#aug B5  F#5 F5 F5(8va)  A  F#min  D   c=chord
e|-------------------------------------------|-5----9---10--|----------------
B|-------------------------------------------|-5---10---10--|----------------
G|--11------7----------9----4----------10----|-6---11---11--|-c--c--c--------
D|--11------7----7-----9----4---4---3--10----|--------------|-c--c--c--------
A|---9------5----7-----6----2---4---3---8----|--------------|-c--c--c--------
E|---------------5--------------2---1--------|--------------|----------------
                                                              1  &  2  &
                                                              3  &  4  &

 The Song

 Intro                                                                        
 Guitar 1
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 Guitar 3 (Riff One/R1)
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F#5(8va)                      D5 
It's not the right time to be sober
A5                  D#aug
Now the idiots have taken over
D5                      B5         R1  
Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?

F#5(8va)            D5 
Mensa membership conceding
A5                  	        D#aug
Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
D5                     B5 
Watson, it's really elementary
		 A5
The Industrial Revolution
                            F#5
Has flipped the bitch on evolution
	                                                                                 F5	                         D5                           A5
The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized, what a bummer
                        F#5
The world keeps getting dumber
                 F5           D5                     R1
Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason

F#5(8va)                    D5
Darwin's rollin over in his coffin
A5                                  D#aug
The fittest are surviving much less often
D5                             B5           R1
Now everything seems to be the first thing, and it's worsening

F#5(8va)                         D5
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
A5                           D#aug                          D5
Now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule
                          B5                A5
And I'm startin to feel a lot like Charlton Heston
                      F#5
Stranded on a primate planet
                         F5
Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
     D5                            A5
Were generals and the armies that obeyed them
                    F5
Followers following fables
                    F#5                        D5
Philosophies that enabled them to rule without regard


*play the ska chord A nine times*


F#min                                                    D
There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
A                                                           D                    
Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred
A                                        F#min
Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions
A                                                                F#5(8va)
Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions!

            D5
What are we left with?
  A5                    D#aug           D5
A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
                    B5                   A5
Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
           F#5
Pass on traditions
                   F5
How to get ahead religions
    D5
And prosperity via simpleton culture

A5                    F#5(8va)  
The idiots are takin' over
D5                      A5 
  The idiots are takin' over

(repeat 4x)


Lead Guitar outro: Start playing at "culture"

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(repeat 4x)



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       They're takin' over!