Cinema Show tab

The Cinema Show

Written by Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford
From the Genesis album: Selling England By The Pound, 1973

INTRO:

1st guitar:

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2nd guitar:

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1st:

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2nd:

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1st:

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slower

2nd:

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1st:

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a tempo slow slower even slower

2nd:

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VERSE:

one guitar (I think...)

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(4X; 2X without vocals, 2X with vocals....)

Home from work, our Juliet..............

Then, 2 guitars again:

1st: Dm Bb

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I will make my bed, she said, and turned to go

2nd:

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ONE GUITAR: ___________________ __________________

Bb C |1. Dm | 2. Gmaj7 Am

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1. Can she be late for her cinema show?

2. Can he fail armed with his chocolate surprise?

From: rpaley1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Bob Paley)

Subject: TAB: Cinema Show (middle section); GENESIS

Bob Paley

rpaley1@cc.swarthmore.edu

Gmaj7 C

chocolate surprise

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Gmaj7 C

Take a little trip back with Father Tiresias

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Gmaj7 C

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Gmaj7 C

listen to the old one speak of all he has lived through

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F Em D C

I have crossed between the poles and for me there's no mystery

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B C#m B A

Once a man like the sea I raged once a woman like the earth

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A7 A C Cdim

I gave but there is in fact more earth than

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| 1st ending(quiet interlude)

|sea

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(first guitar)

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(second guitar) (this seems to fade out of the mix)

[REPEAT THE SECTION ABOVE 3X, then, only one guitar for the next part]

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(Repeat 4X; 2X without vocals, 2X with CSN-like vocals)

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---7----7----7----7------9----9----9----9-----back to verse (Gmaj7)

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| 2nd ending (instrumental..)

| (Strum chords)

G Gmaj7 C G Gmaj7 C Gm Eb C D

| beginning of keyboard solo

C(choke) Em(arpeggiate)| A5 G5 F#m__________etc.

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