The Colony Of Slippermen chords by Genesis

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: F#

Difficulty: Intermediate

"The Arrival"

E5

     F#
…Baba-di-ban…


Verse 1:
F#
I wandered lonely as a cloud,
F#
Till I came upon this dirty street.
D#m
I’ve never seen a stranger crowd;
D#m
Slubberdegullions on squeaky feet,

Chorus:
C#       D#m
Con – tinually pacing,
C#         D#m
With nonchalant em-bracing,
   C#     C#m
Each orifice dis-gracing
    C#m             F#
And one facing me moves to say “hel-lay”.


Verse 2:
F#
Your skin’s all covered in slimy lumps.
F#
With lips that slide across each chin.
D#m
His twisted limbs like rubber stumps
D#m
Are waved in welcome say “Please join in.”


Chorus:
C#       D#m
My grip must be flipping,
    C#       D#m
Cos his handshake keeps slipping,
  C#      D#m
My hopes keep on dipping
    C#m             F#m
And his lips keep on smiling all the time.


Bridge:
E          B
“We, like you, have tasted love.
Bm7
Don’t be alarmed at what you see,
Bm7
You yourself are just the same as what you see in me.”


Chorus 2:
E5    D5
Me, like you?
   C#m7     Dsus2
like that!


Verse 3:
F6
“You better watch it son, your sentence has only just begun
Gm7                    G7
You better run and join your brother John.___”


"A Visit To The Doktor"

Verse 4:
        Cm
“You’re in the colony of slippermen.
      Gm7
There’s no who? why? what? or when?
    Fm7
You get out if you’ve got the gripe
    Bb
To see, Doktor Dyper, reformed sniper – he’ll whip off your windscreenwiper”

Cm
John and I are able
  Gm7
To face the Doktor and his marble table.
      Fm7
Understand Rael, that’s the end of your tail.
Bb
“Don’t delay, dock the d***!” I watch his count-
down timer tick…


Break:
C7
Fmadd9


Verse 5:
C7             Cm6
He places the number into a tube,
    C7          Em
It’s a yellow plastic shoobe-doobe.
     C7
It says: “Though your fingers may ti-ckle
Cm6
You’ll be safe in our pickle.”
C7                    Em
Suddenly, black cloud come down from the sky.
    C
It’s a supersized black bird that sure can fly…


"The Raven"

Break 2:

F/C
G/C
C C7
F/C
Fm/C
C
F/C
Cdim
C
D/C
F/C
C
F/C
C
F/C


Verse 6:
C7                Cm6
The raven brings on darkness and night
  C7               Em
He flies right down, gives me one h*** of a fright.
C7
He take the tube right out of my hands
Cdim
Man, I’ve got to find out where that black bird lands.


Verse 7:
F#
“Look here John, I’ve got to run
F#m
I need you now, you going to come?”
D#m
He says to me: “Now can’t you see
D#m
Where the raven flies there’s jeopardy?


Chorus 3:
      C#      D#m
We’ve been cured on the couch
      C#       D#m
Now you’re sick with your grouch.
   C#     D#m
I’ll not risk my honey pouch
C#                  F#
Which my slouch will wear slung very low.”


Chorus 2:
E                B
He walks away and leaves me once again.
Bm7
Even though I never learn, I’d hoped he’d show just some concern.


Break 3:
E5    D5
some concern,
C#m7      Dsus2
ah, some concern.

F6
Gm7
G7


Chorus 3:
     Cm
I’m in the agony of Slipperpain
     Gm7
I pray my undercarriage will sustain.
  Fm7
The chase is on, the pace is hot
    Bb
But I’m running so very hard with everything that I’ve got.
  Cm
He leads me down an underpass
Gm7
Though it narrows, he still flies very fast,
Fm7
When the tunnel stops
   Bb
Catch sight of the tube, just as it drops.


Outro:
Cm       G
I’m on top of a bank too steep to climb
Bm
I see it hit the water


F# C#m/F#
just in time

F# C#m/F#
to watch it float away

F# C#m/F#

F# C#m/F#

F# C#m/F#