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Genesis — Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Tab

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Here's a classic for Genesis/Gabriel fans.  Has anyone transcribed the
keyboard intro for guitar?  It would make a nice addition to this file.

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Artist: Genesis
~Title:  The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Album:  The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974)
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                    THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY

                          Words and Music by
              Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford,
                   Peter Gabriel, and Steve Hackett

Chord Voicings:

  Asus2 Amaj7 Bb Bsus4 C# C#m  D6 Dmaj7 Dmaj7/C#
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B———0—————2———3————5———6———5———0————2——————3————|
G———2—————1———3————4———6———6———2————2——————x————|
D———2—————2———3————4———6———6———0————0——————x————|
A———0—————0———1————2———4———4———x————x——————4————|
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   E  Eb Ebm7 E5 Emaj7 Esus2 F#m6 G#m
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B——0——4———2———5————4—————0————2————4——|
G——1——3———3———3————4—————4————2————4——|
D——2——1———1———2————2—————4————1————6——|
A——2——x———x———x————x—————2————x————6——|
E——0——x———x———x————x—————0————2————4——|


Moderately Bright
4/4 time
Key of E (four sharps)

[Intro]
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|                |Bb              |                |Bsus4           |
         And the  lamb_______________         lies  down_____________

|                |Esus2           |                |
___           on  Broad   —   way.


[Verses 1, 2, and 3]
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|: Esus2                          |                                 |
1. Ear — ly     morn —  ing   Man   —    hat    —    tan,___
2. Night—time's fly  —  ers   feel____  their        pains._
3. Su — zanne   tired,_ her   work____   all         done,__ thinks

|Esus2                            |                                 |
      o — cean    winds    blow    on      the     land.______
      Drug   —    store    takes   down    the     chains.____
      mon — ey,   hon   —   ey,    be      on,     ne — on.___

|G#m                              |                                 |
    The  Mov — ie  Pal — ace  is   now    un — done.___   The
         Met — al  mo — tion       comes  in   bursts,_   but  the
    Cab — man's    vel — vet glove sounds the  horn,___   and  the

|Asus2                            |                                 |
 all — night   watch — men   have  had     their   fun.____
 gas   sta  —  tion_   can         quench  that    thirst._    Sus —
 saw — dust    king_   spits       out     his     scorn.__

|G#m                              |                                 |
 Sleep — ing  cheap — ly  on  the  mid — night  show,___  it's  the
 pen —  sion  cracked___      on    un — made   road.___        The
 Won —  der   wom  —  en,          draw  your   blind!__       Don't

|Asus2                            |                                 |
 same   old    end  —  ing;        time   to   go._____   Get out!___
 truck— er's   eyes    read        "o — ver —  load."__
 look   at     me!     I'm         not  your   kind.___   I'm Rael!__

|E                                |E5                               |
 ____                                                           It
           And  out  of  the  sub — way,
 ____

|Eb                               |                                 |
     seems  they  can — not  leave____   their  dream.___   There's
 Ra — el    Im — pe  —  ri — al    Aer — o  —   sol  Kid_
 Some—thing in — side   me   has   just  be  —  gun._____

|Ebm7                             |                                 |
 some—thing  mov  —  ing in  the    side — walk  steam.__   And  the
 ex — its    in   —  to  day—light, spray  gun   hid.____   And  the
      Lord   knows__         what   I      have  done.___   And  the

|Bb                               |                                 |
 lamb_________________________________                       lies
 lamb_________________________________                       lies
 lamb_________________________________                       lies

|Bsus4                            |                                 |
 down_________________________________                        on     *
 down_________________________________                        on     &
 down_________________________________                        on     #

{ *  go to |1.          }
{ &  go to |2. [Bridge] }
{ #  go to |3. [Outro]  }

 _____________________________________________________________________
|1.
|Esus2                            |                                 |
 Broad         —          way.

|                                 |                                :|

{go to start of verse 2}


[Bridge]
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 _____________________________________________________________________
|2.
|Esus2                            |                                 |
 Broad         —          way.                                The

|Amaj7                            |                                 |
 lamb        seems       right     out    of    place,    yet  the

|Emaj7                            |                                 |
 Broad    —    way       street    scene                 finds   a

|Amaj7                            |                                 |
 fo    —    cus      in     its    face.

|F#m6                             |                                 |
    Some — how   it's   ly — ing   there,          brings      a

|C#                               |                                 |
 still  —  ness          to  the   air.                    Though

|C#m                     Dmaj7/C# |C#m             Dmaj7/C#         |
 man            —          made    light,                      at

|C#m             Dmaj7/C#         |C#m             Dmaj7/C#         |
 night   is   ver — y     bright,_____                      there's

|Dmaj7           D6               |Dmaj7           D6               |
 no        white  —  wash          vic  —  tim,             as  the

|Amaj7                            |                                 |
 ne  —  ons      dim,____                   to  the    coat    of

|E                                |                                 |
 white.

|E5                               |Eb                               |
                                   Ra — el     Im — pe  —  ri — al

|                                 |Ebm7                             |
    Aer — o  —   sol  Kid,         wipes   his   gun ——  he's  for —

|                                 |Bb                               |
 got — ten what he  did.  And  the lamb______________________________

|                                 |Bsus4                            |
 ____                      lies    down______________________________

|                                 |Esus2                            |
 ____                       on     Broad          —         way.

|                                 |  {go to start of verse 3}


[Outro]
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 _____________________________________________________________________
|3.  Repeat and fade
|: Esus2                          |                                 |
 Broad         —          way.                                On

|                                 |                                :|
 Broad         —          way.                                On


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| Frank Palcat              | ac365@freenet.carleton.ca |
| Ottawa, Ontario, Canada   | /////////////|
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