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The Boy in the Bubble
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C x-3-x-0-1-x
D x-x-0-2-3-x
Whatever your strumming pattern, try to incorporate the following
changes and rhythm:
[Verse] / [Intro] / [Interlude]
[[[[[[[[[[[[AmAmCDAmCDCDCDD
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|----0-------0---|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----1-------1---|----1---3-3-----|----1---3---1-3-|----1---3-3-----|
G|----2-------2---|----0---2-2-----|----0---2---0-2-|----0---2-2-----|
D|2-----------2---|2---x---0-------|2---x---0---x-0-|----x---0-0-----|
A|0-------0-------|0---3-----------|0---3-------3---|----3-----------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
[Chorus] / [Outro]
[[[[[[[[[[[[GGCDGCDCDCDD
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|----3-------3---|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----0-------0---|----1---3-3-----|----1---3---1-3-|----1---3-3-----|
G|----0-------0---|----0---2-2-----|----0---2---0-2-|----0---2-2-----|
D|0-----------0---|0---x---0-------|0---x---0---x-0-|----x---0-0-----|
A|x---------------|x---3-----------|x---3-------3---|----3-----------|
E|3-------3-------|3---------------|3---------------|----------------|
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[Intro]
accordion only
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full band
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[Verse 1]
Am
It was a slow day
AmCD
And the sun was beating
AmCDCDCDD
On the soldiers by the side of the road
Am
There was a bright light
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AmCD
A shattering of shop windows
AmCDCDCDD
The bomb in the baby carriage was wired to the radio
[Chorus]
GGCD
These are the days of miracle and wonder
GCDCDCDD
This is the long distance call
GGCD
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
GCDCDCDD
The way we look to us all
GGCD
The way we look to a distant constellation
GCDCDCDD
That's dying in a corner of the sky
GGCD
These are the days of miracle and wonder
GCDCDCDD
And don't cry baby, don't cry, don't cry
[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
Am
It was a dry wind
AmCD
And it swept across the desert
AmCDCDCDD
And it curled into the circle of birth
Am
And the dead sand
AmCD
Falling on the children
AmCDCDCDD
The mothers and the fathers and the automatic earth
[Chorus]
GGCD
These are the days of miracle and wonder
GCDCDCDD
This is the long distance call
GGCD
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
GCDCDCDD
The way we look to us all
GGCD
The way we look to a distant constellation
GCDCDCDD
That's dying in a corner of the sky
GGCD
These are the days of miracle and wonder
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GCDCDCDD
And don't cry baby, don't cry, don't cry
[Interlude] (synth guitar licks)
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[Verse 3]
Am
It's a turn-around jump shot
AmCD
It's everybody jump start
AmCDCDCDD
It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
AmAmCD
Medicine is magical and magical is art
AmCD
Think of the Boy in the Bubble
CDCDD
And the baby with the baboon heart
[Chorus]
GGCD
And I believe, these are the days of lasers in the jungle
GCDCDCDD
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
GGCD
Staccato signals of constant information
GCDCDCDD
A loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires and baby
[Chorus]
GGCD
These are the days of miracle and wonder
GCDCDCDD
This is the long distance call
GGCD
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
GCDCDCDD
The way we look to us all
[Chorus]
GGCD
The way we look to a distant constellation
GCDCDCDD
That's dying in a corner of the sky
GGCD
These are the days of miracle and wonder
GCDCDCDD
And don't cry baby, don't cry, don't cry
[Outro]
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(repeat and fade)