"The Beat(en) Generation" by Matt Johnson
tabbed by Christopher Carl Heckman <checkman@math.la.asu.edu>
using Seventh String's Transcribe! utility

Usual disclaimers: You are allowed to use this file only for private study;
making money off of it is strictly verboten. If the chords don't line up
in whatever word processor you are using, change the whole document to
Courier font (or some other equal-spaced font). And lastly: this is my
interpretation of the song; no copyright infringement or toe-stepping-on is
intended.

This is a fairly quick song, and I have arranged it for one guitar so that 
I can play it quickly. Those of you who are more adventurous may want 
to alter the main progression from  |  Am7  F  |  G7 Dsus4 G7   Ab  | to
|  Am7 C F Am7  |  G7 Dsus4 G7  Ab  | during the verses and to
|  Am7 C F Dm7  |  G7 Dsus4 G7  Ab  | during the chorus, which is how
it "really" sounds. The bassline seems to follow the latter two progressions
(i.e., the bass actually plays C's and D's). The progression changes at
the end of the second and third verses. Also, I have arranged the harmonica
parts for guitar.

         Am                      F  
When you cast your eyes upon the skylines
        G Dsus4      G      
Of this   once proud nation,
        Ab        Am7          F
Can you sense the fear and the hatred
G7             Dsus4         G7    Ab    
Growing in the hearts of its population

|  Am7 C F  |  G7 Dsus4 G7 

    Ab5 Am7       F          G     Dsus4 G7    Ab
And our youth, oh youth, are being     seduced
       Am7             F        G7    Dsus4       G7 Ab
By the greedy hands of politics   and half  truths


	chorus:

    Am7         F          G7     Dsus4 G7    Ab
The beaten generation, the beaten gener-ation,
Am7         F       G7   Dsus4    G7         Ab
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information.
    Am7         F          G7     Dsus4 G7    Ab
The beaten generation, the beaten gener-ation,
Am7       F     G7   Dsus4 G7       Ab
Open your eyes, open your   imagina[tion]


	break #1(harmonica arranged for guitar):

     Am7     F           G7  Dsus4  G7  Ab                          
E-|--3-------1---0----|--------------------|
B-|-------------------|--5-3-2/3--------1--|
G-|-------------------|--------------------|
D-|-------------------|--------------------|
A-|-------------------|--------------------|
E-|-------------------|--------------------|
     tion ...                           We're


        Am7                  F        
[We're] being sedated by the gasoline fumes
    G7   Dsus4        G
And hypnotised by the satellites
Ab Am7          F            G7  Dsus4   G7
In-to believing what is good and what is right
    Ab     Am7                        C  
You may be worshipping the temples of mammon
   G7                       F7
Or lost in the prisons of religion
            Am7                C
But can you still walk back to happiness
            G            Gsus4 F
When you've nowhere left to    run?

	chorus + break #2:

     Am7     F           G7  Dsus4  G7    Gb            
E-|--3-------1---0----|-----------------------|
B-|-------------------|--5-3-3--------1-3-5---|
G-|-------------------|-----------------------|
D-|-------------------|-----------------------|
A-|-------------------|-----------------------|
E-|-------------------|-----------------------|
    tion ...

     F    C5 F    F#    G7         Ab                              
E-|------------------|------------------------|
B-|--5-3-1------1----|-----3--3----1----------|
G-|----------2----2--|--2---------------------|
D-|------------------|------------------------|
A-|------------------|------------------------|
E-|------------------|------------------------|
                                   If they ...

          Am7         F       G7     D  G7
[If they] send in the special police    [harm: Eb]
Ab   Am7           F           G7      D      G7     Ab
To deliver us from liberty and keep us   from peace
               Am7             C
Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues
          G                  F7
When they tell us justice is being done
         Am7                  C            G    F
And that freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun?
 

	chorus + break #3:

     Am7     F          G7  Dsus4  G7    Gb     F   C5    F   F#
E-|--3-------1---0---|-----------------------|-------------------|
B-|------------------|--5-3-3--------1-3-5---|--5-3-3-------1----|
G-|------------------|-----------------------|------------2---2--|
D-|------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|
A-|------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|
E-|------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|
    tion ...

     G7  Dsus4 G7  Ab    Am7        [freely]
E-|-------------------|-----------|----------1====-----------||
B-|--5-3-3---------1--|--------4--|--4=======--------4-1-----||
G-|-------------------|--2--------|--------------------------||
D-|-------------------|-----------|----------------------1---||
A-|-------------------|-----------|--------------------------||
E-|-------------------|-----------|--------------------------||