The Boy In The Bubble

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             The Boy in the Bubble – Paul Simon

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Written by: Paul Simon/Forere 
Motloheloa
From: "Graceland" (1986)

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

The album version is a little sharp.
 To play along to the recording 
you’d
have to tune up a little to match 
the tuning there.

Listen to this tab:

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CHORDS

      E-A-D-G-B-e
C     x-3-x-0-1-x
D     x-x-0-2-3-x

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Whatever your strumming pattern, try
 to incorporate the following
changes and rhythm:

[Verse] / [Intro] / [Interlude]
  Am               Am  C   D    
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4
    Am  C   D   C D      C   D D
 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

E|----0-------0---|---------------
B|----1-------1---|----1---3-3----
G|----2-------2---|----0---2-2----
D|2-----------2---| 2---x---0-----
A|0-------0-------| 0---3---------
E|----------------|---------------

E|-|----------------|---------------
B|-|----1---3---1-3-|----1---3-3----
G|-|----0---2---0-2-|----0---2-2----
D|--|2---x---0---x-0-|----x---0-0---
A|--|0---3-------3---|----3---------
E|-|----------------|---------------

[Chorus] / [Otro]
  G                G   C   D    
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4
    G   C   D   C D      C   D D
 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

E|----3-------3---|---------------
B|----0-------0---|----1---3-3----
G|----0-------0---|----0---2-2----
D|0-----------0---| 0---x---0-----
A|x---------------| x---3---------
E|3-------3-------| 3-------------

E|-|----------------|---------------
B|-|----1---3---1-3-|----1---3-3----
G|-|----0---2---0-2-|----0---2-2----
D|--|0---x---0---x-0-|----x---0-0---
A|--|x---3-------3---|----3---------
E|--|3---------------|--------------


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[Intro]
          accordion only
| Am | Am C D   | Am C D  C D | 
 C D    |
| Am | Am C D   | Am C D  C D | 
          full band
 C D    |

| Am | Am C D   | Am C D  C D | 
 C D    |
| Am | Am C D   | Am C D  C D | 

 C D    |


[Verse]
         Am
It was a slow day
        Am  C   D
And the sun was beating
       Am       C      D       C 
On the soldiers by the side of 
  D     C  D D
the road
            Am
There was a bright light
  Am         C  D
A shattering of shop windows
Continúa después del anuncio
Eliminar anuncios
    Am   C      D             C  
The bomb in the baby carriage was
 D     C      D D
 wired to the radio


[Chorus]
G                      G   C     
 These are the days of miracle and 
  D
wonder
G     C      D    C  D         
 This is the long distance call
  C  D D

G                   G       C    
 The way the camera follows us in 
 D
slo-mo
G    C      D       C  D    C  D D
 The way we look to us all
G                     G    
 The way we look to a distant 
   C      D
constellation
       G     C    D      C  D  
That's dying in a corner of the
      C  D D
 sky
G                      G   C     
 These are the days of miracle and 
  D
wonder
    G     C   D     C     D    
And don't cry baby, don't cry, 
C     D D
don't cry


[Interlude]
| Am | Am C D   | Am C D  C D | 
 C D    |
| Am | Am C D   | Am C D  C D | 

 C D    |


[Verse]
         Am
It was a dry wind
        Am    C         D
And it swept across the desert
       Am       C      D      C  
And it curled into the circle of 
D     C  D D
birth
        Am
And the dead sand
Am      C      D
Falling on the children
    Am      C       D       C   
The mothers and the fathers and 
D       C     D D
the automatic earth


[Chorus]
G                      G   C     
 These are the days of miracle and 
  D
wonder
G     C      D    C  D         
 This is the long distance call
  C  D D

G                   G       C    
 The way the camera follows us in 
 D
slo-mo
G    C      D       C  D    C  D D
 The way we look to us all
G                     G    
 The way we look to a distant 
   C      D
constellation
       G     C    D      C  D  
That's dying in a corner of the
      C  D D
 sky
G                      G   C     
 These are the days of miracle and 
  D
wonder
    G     C   D     C     D    
And don't cry baby, don't cry, 
C     D D
don't cry


[Interlude] (synth guitar licks)
| Am | Am C D   | Am C D  C D | 
 C D    |
| Am | Am C D   | Am C D  C D | 

 C D    |


[Verse]
       Am
It's a turn-around jump shot
     Am   C    D
It's everybody jump start
     Am    C   D      C        
It's every generation throws a 
D    C      D   D
hero up the pop charts
Am                      Am  C    
Medicine is magical and magical is 
  D
art
            Am   C      D
Think of the Boy in the Bubble
    C   D         C   D     D
And the baby with the baboon heart


[Chorus]
        G                          
And I believe, these are the days 
  G      C      D
of lasers in the jungle
G      C      D      C   D     
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
C     D D

G                    G     
 Staccato signals of constant 
   C    D
information
  G      C    D     C  D       
A loose affiliation of 
         C      D         D
millionaires and billionaires and 
baby

G                      G   C     
 These are the days of miracle and 
  D
wonder
G     C      D    C  D         
 This is the long distance call
  C  D D

G                   G       C    
 The way the camera follows us in 
 D
slo-mo
G    C      D       C  D    C  D D
 The way we look to us all
G                     G    
 The way we look to a distant 
   C      D
constellation
       G     C    D      C  D  
That's dying in a corner of the
      C  D D
 sky
G                      G   C     
 These are the days of miracle and 
  D
wonder
    G     C   D     C     D    
And don't cry baby, don't cry, 
C     D D
don't cry


[Otro]
| G | G C D   | G C D  C D |  
C D    |
| G | G C D   | G C D  C D |  
(repeat and fade)
C D    |