Peter Gabriel – The Boy In The Bubble (Guitar)

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THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE -- PETER GABRIEL, "Scratch My Back"(2010) Exact chords tabbed out by ClassicalfreaK, 2015 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! ======================================================= INTRO (pno.) F#5
e||--------|--------||
B||--------|--------||
G||--------|--------||
d||--4---4-|--4---4-||
A||-4---4--|-4---4--||
D||4---4---|4---4---||

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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-ClassicalfreaK