...SLEDGEHAMMER... by Peter Gabriel
*from 'So' (1986)*
(modified from Johnny Couchman's original tab: djb@uk.ac.bath.maths)
*CAPO 1st FRET*
(Original Key: Ebm)
Intro
[Dm] [Bb7] [G7] [A7]
Interlude
[D] [C/D] (x4)
Verse 1
[C/D] [D] [C/D] [D] [C/D]
You could have a steam train,
[D] [C/D] [D]
If you'd just lay down your tracks.
[C/D] [D] [C/D] [D] [C/D]
You could have an aero-plane, flying,
[D] [C/D] [D]
If you bring your blue sky back.
Bridge 1
[C/D] [Bm] [D]
All you do is call me... I'll be anything you need.
Interlude
[D] [C/D] [D] [C/D] N.C.
Verse 2
N.C. [D] [C/D] [D]
You could have a big dipper,
[C/D] [D] [C/D] [D]
Going up and down, a-round the bends.
[C/D] [D] [C/D] [D] [C/D]
You could have a bumper car, bumping,
[D] [C/D] [D] [C/D]
This a-musement never ends.
Chorus 1
[Bm7] [C]
I wanna be,
[Em7] [Bm7] [C]
(Your Sledgehammer).
[Em7] [Bm7] [C]
Why don't you call my name?
[Em7] [Bm7] [C]
Oh, let me be, (your Sledgehammer),
[Em7]
This will be my testimony.
[D] [C/D]
Yeah,
[D] [C/D]
(Yeah).
Interlude
[D] [C/D] [D] [C/D] N.C.
Verse 3
N.C. [D] [C/D] [D] [C/D]
Show me round your fruitcage,
[D] [C/D] [D]
'Cos I will be your honey bee.
[C/D] [D] C/D, [D] [C/D]
Open up your fruitcage,
[D] [C/D] [D] [C/D]
Where the fruit is as sweet as can be.
Chorus 2
[Bm7] [C]
I wanna be,
[Em7] [Bm7] [C]
(Your Sledgehammer).
[Em7] [Bm7] [C]
Why don't you call my name?
[Em7] [Bm7] [C]
You'd better call, (The Sledgehammer),
[Em7] [Bm7] [C]
Put your mind at rest. I'm gonna be;
[Em7] [Bm7] [C]
(The Sledgehammer),
[Em7] [Bm7] [C]
This can be my testimony, yeah!
[Em7] [Bm7] [C]
I'm your sledgehammer,
[Em7]
Let there be no doubt about it.
[Dm] [A7]
Sledge, sledge, sledgehammer.
Interlude
[Dm] [Bb7] [G7] [Dm] [Bb7] [G7]
Get ready!
Coda
[Dm]
I've kicked the habit, (I've kicked the habit),
[Bb7] [G7]
Shed my skin, (shed my skin).
[Dm]
This is the new stuff, (this is the new stuff),
[Bb7] [G7]
I go dancing in, we go dancing in. Oh, won't you...
[Dm]
Show for me, (show for me),
[Bb7] [G7]
I will show for you, (show for you).
[Dm]
Show for me, (show for me),
[Bb7] [G7]
I will show for you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[Dm]
I do mean you, only you,
[Bb7] [G7]
You've been coming through, going to build that power,
Build, build, build, build, build that power.
[Dm]
I've been feeding my rhythm,
[Bb7] [G7]
I've been feeding the rhythm, going to feel that power, hey...
[Dm]
Build in you.
[Bb7]
Come on, come on help me do, come on, come on help me do.
[G7]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you!
[Dm] [Bb7]
I've been feeding my rhythm, I've been feeding my rhythm.
[G7]
It's what we're doing, doing all day and night.
(Fade)
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------
[Dm] [Bb7] [G7] [D] [C/D]
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
xx0231 x13131 353433 xx0232 xx0010
[Bm] [Bm7] [C] [Em7] [A7]
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
x24432 x24232 x32010 022030 x02223
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2008 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)
