THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE -- PETER GABRIEL, "Scratch My Back"(2010)
Exact chords tabbed out by ClassicalfreaK, 2015
** 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---||
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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Enjoy! Please tell me what you think in the comments.
-ClassicalfreaK
