Cuckoo cocoon — Genesis

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Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 18:53:55 +0000 (UT) From: "Jeffrey R. Nicolaus" <[email protected]> Subject: TAB: "Cuckoo Cocoon" by 'Genesis'

" Cuckoo Cocoon " by Genesis From ' The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway '

TABLATURE: By Jeff Nicolaus ([email protected]) Sept 3, 1997.

TUNING: Standard

ARRANGEMENT: Taken off studio version. The guitars are mellow and effects laden. The intro and regular verse seem to have been recorded using a 'Travis' style of finger picking, where the thumb is alternating. This version is a little more syncopated and more to my liking. I will also include an 'optional' more aggressive style of picking for comparison.

Time signature : 4/4

OPTIONAL:

1st verse: Wrapped up in some powdered wool I guess I'm losing touch. 2nd verse: There's nothing I can recognize, this is nowhere that I've known

1st verse: Don't tell me this is dying, 'cause I ain't changed that much. 2nd verse: With no sign of life at all, I guess that I'm alone.

1st verse: The only sound is waterdrops, I wonder where the hell I 2nd verse: And I feel so secure, that I know this can't be

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1st verse: am? Some kind of jam? Cuckoo cocoon, have I come to, 2nd verse: too soon for real. But I feel good.

1st verse: you?

STRUM / HOLD CHORD

2nd verse: you?

STRUM / HOLD CHORD

MIDDLE: ( FLUTE SOLO )

3rd verse: I wonder if I'm a prisoner locked in some Brooklyn jail, or

3rd verse: some kind of Jonah, shut up inside the whale.

3rd verse: No, I'm still Rael, and I'm stuck in some kind of

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3rd verse: cave, what could've saved me? Cuckoo cocoon, have I come to too soon for

3rd verse: you?

STRUM / HOLD CHORD

END: ( FLUTE SOLO )