The Boy In The Bubble
Paul Simon
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Boy in the Bubble - Paul Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: https://soundcloud.com/maguri/paul-simon-the-boy-in-the-bubble-demo --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS 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] 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] 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---------------|----------------| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] accordion only | | | | | full band | | | | | | | | | | [Verse] 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 [Chorus] 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 [Interlude] | | | | | | | | | | [Verse] 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 [Chorus] 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 [Interlude] (synth guitar licks) | | | | | | | | | | [Verse] 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 [Chorus] 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 [Outro] | | | | | (repeat and fade)
