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The Boy In The Bubble by Peter Gabriel

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THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE -by- PETER GABRIEL
From: "Scratch My Back"(2010)

** DROP D TUNING! **

Every single piano part that was transcribed for guitar
tab follows the voicing of the piano to the best of my
ability, short of an octave-change here and there. I worked
quite a bit on this one, please give this beautiful song
a listen and a play!
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INTRO
  (pno.)
   F#5
e||--------|--------||
B||--------|--------||
G||--------|--------||
d||--4---4-|--4---4-||
A||-4---4--|-4---4--||
D||4---4---|4---4---||
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VERSE
  F#m F#m6 F#m E  F#m F#m6 F#m D2
e||--------|--------|--------|--------||
B||--------|--------|--------|--------||
G||--------|------1-|--------|--------||
d||--4---4-|--4-----|--4---4-|------2-||
A||-4---6--|-4---2--|-4---6--|-4---0--||
D||4---4---|4---2---|4---4---|4-2-0---||
     F#m
It was a slow day
    F#m6
And the sun was beating
    F#m             E
On the soldiers by the side of the road
          F#m
There was a bright light
 F#m6
A shattering of shop windows
  F#m     E
The bomb in the baby carriage
  D2
Was wired to the radio, and

CHORUS
  E5 D2  E  D2  E2 D2  E5 B
e||--------|--------|--------|--------|
B||--------|--------|--------|------4-|
G||--------|--1-----|--------|--------|
d||--2---2-|------2-|--4---2-|-----4--|
A||-2---0--|-2---0--|-2---0--|-2--2---|
D||2---0---|2---0---|2---0---|2-0-----|

  C#m B4  E/G# D2 F#m E D5 E5 D2 (D2)
e||--------|--------|--------|--------|----||
B||------4-|--------|--------|--------|----||
G||--5---4-|--------|--2-----|--------|----||
d||-6---2--|--9---2-|--------|------2-|----||
A||4---2---|-7---0--|-4---2-0|-2---0--|----||
D||-------7|6---0---|4---2-0-|2---0---|----||
E           Dsus2
 These are the days of miracle and wonder
E             Dsus2
 This is the long-distance call
E          Dsus2
 The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
E      Dsus    B
 The way we look to us all
C#m          B4
 The way we look to a distant constellation
    E/G#           D2
That's dying in a corner of the sky
F#m          E5     D5
 These are the days of miracle and wonder
  E5        D2
And don't cry, baby, don't cry, don't cry

INSTRUMENTAL (cello, pno.)
  (cello)
  F#m E  E7/D Bm/D
e||--------|--------||
B||--------|--------||
G||--------|--------||
d||2-------|(2)-----||
A||--------|--------||
D||--------|--------||
 ||   "don't cry"||
 ||x...x...|x...x...||
 ||(pno.) |    ||
e||--------|--------||
B||--------|--------||
G||------1-|--1-----||
d||--7-----|------4-||
A||-4---2--|-2---2--||
D||4---2---|0---0---||

VERSE
  F#m E  D6 C#m F#m E  D6 B
e||--------|--------|--------|--------||
B||--------|--------|--------|-----4--||
G||--2---1-|--2-----|--2---1-|--2-----||
d||--------|-----246|--------|-----4--||
A||-4---2--|-2--4---|-4---2--|-2--2---||
D||4---2---|0-------|4---2---|0-------||
       F#m
It was a dry wind
    E
And it swept across the desert
    D6            C#m
And it curled into the circle of birth
    F#m
And the dead sand
E
Falling on the children
  D6
The mothers and the fathers
    B
And the automatic earth

CHORUS
  C#m9 B5 A6 B C#m E  B C# B A5
e||--------|--------|--------|--------|
B||--4---5-|--5---4-|------4-|---4--5-|
G||--------|--------|--------|--------|
d||-6---4--|-4---4--|-6-----4|-7---0--|
A||4---2---|0---2---|4--2-22-|4-2-0---|
D||--------|--------|--2-6---|--------|

  E/G# D2 C#m D  E  B  A B D
e||--------|--------|--------|--------|----||
B||--------|--------|------5-|--------|----||
G||--------|--------|--1-----|--------|----||
d||--9---2-|-6----4-|-----4--|-2-4--4-|----||
A||-7---0--|4-2--0--|-2--2---|0-2--0--|----||
D||6---0---|----0---|2-------|----0---|----||
C#m9          B5
 These are the days of miracle and wonder
A6            B
 This is the long-distance call
C#m     E   E/G#     B
 The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
C#m     B     A5
 The way we look to us all
E/G#         D2
The way we look to a distant constellation
    C#m    B       D2
That's dying in a corner of the sky
E           B
 These are the days of miracle and wonder
  A     B      D
And don't cry, baby, don't cry, don't cry

INSTRUMENTAL
  (cello)
  F#m B/F# F#m B/F#
e||--------|--------||
B||2---0---|----0---||
G||--------|2-------||
d||--------|--------||
A||--------|--------||
D||--------|--------||
 ||    |    ||
 ||x...x...|x...x...||
 ||(bass clarinet) ||
e||--------|--------||
B||--------|--------||
G||--------|--------||
d||--4---4-|--4---4-||
A||-4---2--|-4---4--||
D||4---4---|4---4---||

VERSE
  F#m E A Bm C#m F#m E2  D2 B
e||--2-----|--------|--5---2-|--0-----||
B||-------2|--3---5-|--------|------4-||
G||--------|--------|--------|--------||
d||--------|-4---6--|--------|-----4--||
A||-4---70-|2---4---|-4---2--|-0--2---||
D||4---6---|--------|4---2---|0-------||
      F#m
Well it's a turn-around jump shot
   E     A
It's everybody jump start
   Bm            C#m
It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
F#m           E2
 Medicine is magical and magical is art
D2
Think of the boy in the bubble
    B
And the baby with the baboon heart

VERSE
  E  D2  A/C# D5 E  Bm7 A/C# B
e||--0---0-|--------|-------5|---0----||
B||--------|--------|--0-----|------4-||
G||--------|--2-----|--------|--2----4||
d||--------|-2------|--------|-2---4--||
A||-2---0--|4----0--|-2---2--|4---2---||
D||2---0---|----0---|2---0---|--------||
E         D2
 These are days of lasers in the jungle
A/C#           D5
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
E          Bm7/D
 Staccato signals of constant information
 A/C#            B
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires, and, baby

CHORUS
  E   B A5 B  C#m E B C#m B A5
e||---0--0-|--0-----|--------|------0-|
B||--------|------4-|------4-|---4----|
G||--1-----|--------|--------|--------|
d||-------4|-2---4--|-6-----4|-6---2--|
A||-2---72-|0---2---|4--0-72-|4-2-0---|
D||2---6---|--------|--0-6---|--------|

  B  A  E A B  G#m  F# C#m Bsus B
e||--------|--------|--------|4-------|----||
B||--0---2-|-----54-|--0-----|-----5--|4---||
G||--------|--------|------3-|--4-----|----||
d||-1---2-2|-2-2----|--------|-2---4--|-4--||
A||2---0---|--0-2---|-6---6-4|4---2---|2---||
D||--------|6-------|6---6-4-|--------|----||
E           E/G#    B
 These are the days of miracle and wonder
A5             B
 This is the long-distance call
C#m     E   E/G#     B
 The way the camera follows us in slow-mo
C#m     B     A5
 The way we look to us all, oh, yeah
B           A
 The way we look to a distant constellation
    E/G#    A       B
That's dying in a corner of the sky
G#m                F#
 These are the days of miracle and wonder
  C#m          Bsus    B
And don't cry, baby, don't cry, don't cry

INSTRUMENTAL -- OUTRO
  (cello)
  F#m B/F# F#m B/F# F#m B/F# F#m B
e||--------|--------|--------|--------||
B||2---0---|----0---|2---0---|----0---||
G||--------|2-------|-------2|2-------||
d||--------|--------|--------|--------||
A||--------|--------|--------|--------||
D||--------|--------|--------|--------||
 ||    |    |    |    ||
 ||x...x...|x...x...|x...x...|x...x...||
 ||(bass clarinet) |    |    ||
e||--------|--------|--------|--------||
B||--------|--------|--------|--------||
G||--------|--------|--------|--------||
d||--4---4-|--4---4-|--4---4-|--4--1--||
A||-4---2--|-6---4--|-4---2--|-6---2*-||
D||4---4---|4---4---|4---4---|4-------||
                 (*bottom split cello)
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