Song: Sledgehammer
Artist: Peter Gabriel
Composer: Peter Gabriel
Album: So
Tabbed by: DJ 5th May 2014
CAPO: 1st fret
(Will then sound in the recorded key of Eb)
I would recommend using the voicings in the text
column numbers below.
Regarding the CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS please follow the
information at the bottom of the tab.
Chord names & fret positions are relative to the capo
D = xx0232 G7 = 355433 Bm = x24432
Cadd9 = x32030 G = 353433 Em7 = 022030
Bb = x13331 A7 = x02020 Dm = xx0231
C = x32010 A7sus4 = x02030
N.C. = No chords ^ = Emphasise the beat
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[Intro - Pan-pipe synth sound] (Played freely)
/ = Slide up \ = Slide down
e|------------|------------|--------|---------------|
B|--3-/15-\3--|--3-/15-\3--|--1-/3--|---------------|
G|------------|------------|--------|--2-p0---------|
D|------------|------------|--------|-------3-p0----|
A|------------|------------|--------|------------3--|
E|------------|------------|--------|---------------|
[D] [Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9]
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Bb] [C] [G7] [A7] [A7sus4]
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[D] [Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9]
Yeah - hey, use it, ...everybody use it!
Verse 1
[D] [Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9]
You could have a steam train,
[D] [Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9] [D]
If you'd just lay down your tracks,
[Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9] [D]
You could have an aero - plane flying,
[Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9] [D]
If you bring your blue sky back,
[Cadd9] [Bm]
All you do is call me,
[D] [Cadd9] [D] [D] [Cadd9] [D] N.C.
I'll be anything you need | /__/ /__/ / / |
^ ^ ^ ^
Verse 2
N.C. [D] [Cadd9]
You could have a big dipper,
[D] [Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9] [D]
Going up and down, all a - round the bends,
[Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9]
You could have a bumper car bumping,
[D] [Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9]
This a - musement never ends
Chorus
[Bm] [C] [Em7]
I wanna be... your sledgehammer,
[Bm] [C] [Em7]
Why don't you call my name?
[Bm] [C] [Em7]
Ah! Oh, let me be your sledgehammer,
[Bm] [C] [Em7]
This will be my testimony,
[D] [Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9]
Yeah! Yeah!
[D] [Cadd9] [D] [D] [Cadd9] [D] N.C.
| / / / / | /__/ /__/ / / |
^ ^ ^ ^
Verse 3
N.C. [D] [Cadd9]
Show me round your fruit cage,
[D] [Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9] [D]
'Cause I will be your honey bee,
[Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9]
Open up your fruit cage,
[D] [Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9] [D] [Cadd9]
With a fruit that is sweet as can be
Chorus
[Bm] [C] [Em7]
I wanna be... your sledgehammer,
[Bm] [C] [Em7]
Why don't you call my name?
[Bm] [C] [Em7]
Hah! You'd better call the sledgehammer,
[Bm] [C] [Em7]
Put your mind at rest,
[Bm] [C] [Em7]
I'm gonna be... your sledgehammer,
[Bm] [C] [Em7]
This can be my testimony,
[Bm] [C] [Em7]
Hah! I'm your... sledgehammer,
[Bm] [C] [Em7]
Let there be no doubt about it
Bridge
[Dm] [Cadd9] [Dm] [Cadd9] [Dm] [Cadd9]
Sledge... Sledge...
[Dm] [Cadd9] [Dm] [Cadd9] [Dm] [Cadd9]
Sledge - hammer!
[Bb] [C] [G7] [G] [Dm] [Cadd9] [Dm] [Cadd9]
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Bb] [C] [G] [G7]
| / / / / | / / I keep a - running!
^ ^
Verse 4
[Dm] [Cadd9]
I kicked the ha - bit,
[Dm] [Cadd9]
(Kicked the ha - bit, kicked the ha - bit!)
[Bb] [G] [G7]
Shed my skin, (Shed my skin!)
[Dm] [Cadd9] [Dm] [Cadd9]
This is the new stuff, (This is the new stuff!)
[Bb] [G] [G7]
I come... dancing in, we go dancing in
Verse 5
[Dm] [Cadd9] [Dm] [Cadd9]
Oh, won't you ...show for me? (Show for me!)
[Bb] [G] [G7]
I will ...show for you, (Show for you!)
[Dm] [Cadd9] [Dm] [Cadd9]
Please, ...show for me, (Show for me!)
[Bb] [G]
I will... show for you! Yeah - yeah! Yeah - yeah!
[G7] [Dm] [Cadd9] [Dm]
Yeah, I do mean you, only you,
[Cadd9] [Bb] [G]
You've been coming through, a-gonna build that power,
[G7] [Dm]
Build ...build up that power, hah!
[Cadd9] [Dm]
I've been feeding the rhythm, huh!
[Cadd9] [Bb]
I've been feeding the rhythm,
[G] [G7] [Dm]
Going to feel that power, hey, build in you! Ah!
Coda
[Cadd9] [Dm]
Come on, come on, help me, do!
[Cadd9] [Bb]
Come on, come on help me, do!
[G] [G7] [Dm]
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah! Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, you!
[Cadd9] [Dm]
I've been feeding my rhythm,
[Cadd9] [Bb]
I've been feeding my rhythm,
[G] [G7] [Dm]
It's what we're doing, doing... all day and night,
[Cadd9] [Dm]
Ah, come on, come on, help me, do!
[Cadd9] [Bb] [G]
Come on, come on, help me, do! Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah!
[G7] [Dm]
Yeah - yeah, yeah - yeah, you!
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[Main riff] h = Hammer-on notes
D Cadd9 D Cadd9
e|------2--------0---0---|------2-------0---0---|
B|------3--------3---3---|------3-------3---3---|
G|------2--------0---0---|------2-------0---0---|
D|---0-----------2---2---|---0----------2---2---|
A|---------0--h3---------|---------0-h3---------|
E|-----------------------|----------------------|
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