Genesis – The Carpet Crawlers (Ukulele)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hacket/Rutherford From: “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway” (1974) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
CHORDS
         g-C-E-A
Emaj7    1-3-0-2
Amaj7    1-1-0-0
F#m6     2-4-2-0
C#       1-1-1-4

C#m      1-4-4-4
Bm       4-2-2-2

Dmaj7    2-2-2-4
A7sus4   0-2-0-0
A7       0-1-0-0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro]
Emaj7    Amaj7           Emaj7          Amaj7
There is lambswool under my naked feet

    F#m6
The wool is soft and warm

          C#
Gives off some kind of heat

  C#m Dmaj7  C#m    Dmaj7  C#m      Dmaj7 C#m   Dmaj7
A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed

 Bm  Dmaj7 Bm      Dmaj7 Amaj7
Imaginary  creatures are trapped in birth

        Emaj7  Amaj7  Emaj7    Amaj7
On celluloid

    F#m6
The fleas cling to the golden fleece

C#
Hoping they'll find peace

     C#m  Dmaj7  C#m  Dmaj7  C#m       Dmaj7 C#m  Dmaj7
Each thought and gesture are caught in cellu-loid

           Dmaj7 Bm         Dmaj7 Bm
There's no hi  - ding in my memory

        A7sus4   A7 A7sus4 A7 [ D ]
There's no room            to avoid
[Verse]
D                        Em
  The crawlers cover the floor

                 D
In the red ochre corridor

                       Em
For my second sight of people

                              D
They've more lifeblood than before

                  Em                     D
They're moving in time to a heavy wooden door

                          Em
Where the needle's eye is winking, closing in on the poor
[Chorus]
    F#m
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:

A                            G
  We've got to get in to get out

A                            G
  We've got to get in to get out

D                    C       Em   [ D ]
  We've got to get in to get out
[Verse]
D                    Em                          D
  There's only one direction in the faces that I see

                   Em
It's upward to the ceiling

                            D
Where the chamber's said to be

                          Em
Like the forest fight for sunlight,

                         D
That takes root in every tree

                          Em
They are pulled up by the magnet, believing they're free
[Chorus]
    F#m
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:

A                            G
  We've got to get in to get out

A                            G
  We've got to get in to get out

D                    C       Em  [ D ]
  We've got to get in to get out
[Verse]
D                           Em
 Mild mannered supermen are held in kryptonite,

        D
And the wise and foolish virgins giggle

           Em
With their bodies glowing bright

D                                 Em
Through a door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight;

         D                          Em
It's the bottom of a staircase that spirals out of sight
[Chorus]
    F#m
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:

A                            G
  We've got to get in to get out

A                            G
  We've got to get in to get out

D                    C       Em   [ D ]
  We've got to get in to get out
[Verse]
D                           Em
 The porcelain manikin with shattered skin fears attack

        D
And the eager pack lift up their pitchers

Em
 They carry all they lack

    D                               Em
The liquid has congealed, which has seeped out through the crack,

        D                              | Em |
And the tickler takes his stickleback
[Chorus]
    F#m
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:

A                            G
  We've got to get in to get out

A                            G
  We've got to get in to get out

D                    C       Em   [ D ]
  We've got to get in to get out
[Interlude]
      D                     Em                 [ D ]
We've got to get out, we've got to get in to get out

      D                     Em                 [ D ]
We've got to get out, we've got to get in to get out

      D                     Em                 [ D ]
We've got to get out, we've got to get in to get out

      D                     Em                 [ F#m ]
We've got to get out, we've got to get in to get out
[Chorus]
    F#m
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:

A                            G
  We've got to get in to get out

A                            G
  We've got to get in to get out

D                    C       Em   D
  We've got to get in to get out
(fade)