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:

/

/

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|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

/

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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accordion only

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full band

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It was a slow day

And the sun was beating

On the soldiers by the side of the road

There was a bright light

A shattering of shop windows

The bomb in the baby carriage was wired to the radio

These are the days of miracle and wonder

This is the long distance call

The way the camera follows us in slo-mo

The way we look to us all

The way we look to a distant constellation

That's dying in a corner of the sky

These are the days of miracle and wonder

And don't cry baby, don't cry, don't cry

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It was a dry wind

And it swept across the desert

And it curled into the circle of birth

And the dead sand

Falling on the children

The mothers and the fathers and the automatic earth

These are the days of miracle and wonder

This is the long distance call

The way the camera follows us in slo-mo

The way we look to us all

The way we look to a distant constellation

That's dying in a corner of the sky

These are the days of miracle and wonder

And don't cry baby, don't cry, don't cry

(synth guitar licks)

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It's a turn-around jump shot

It's everybody jump start

It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts

Medicine is magical and magical is art

Think of the Boy in the Bubble

And the baby with the baboon heart

And I believe, these are the days of lasers in the jungle

Lasers in the jungle somewhere

Staccato signals of constant information

A loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires and baby

These are the days of miracle and wonder

This is the long distance call

The way the camera follows us in slo-mo

The way we look to us all

The way we look to a distant constellation

That's dying in a corner of the sky

These are the days of miracle and wonder

And don't cry baby, don't cry, don't cry

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(repeat and fade)