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Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel - Guitar Chords
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Song: Sledgehammer
Artist: Peter Gabriel
Composer: Peter Gabriel
Album: So
Tabbed by: DJ (Diddy D) 5th May 2014
CAPO: 1st fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Eb)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
D = xx0232 G7 = 320001 Bm = x24432
Cadd9 = x32030 A7 = x02020 Em7 = 022030
Bb = x13331 A7sus4 = x02030 Dm = xx0231
C = x32010 N.C. = No chords
/ = Slide up \ = Slide down
h = Hammer-on ^ = Emphasise the beat
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[Intro - freely]
e |---------------|---------------|-----------|-----------------|
B |--3--/15--\3---|--3--/15--\3---|--1---/3---|-----------------|
G |---------------|---------------|-----------|--2-p0-----------|
D |---------------|---------------|-----------|-------3--p0-----|
A |---------------|---------------|-----------|--------------3--|
E |---------------|---------------|-----------|-----------------|
[Main riff]
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 |-----------------------|----------------------|
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 D Cadd9
All you do is call me, I'll be anything you need
D D Cadd9 D
| /__/ /__/ / / |
^ ^ ^ ^
[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
| / / / / | /__/ /__/ / |
^ ^ ^ ^
[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 Cadd9 Bb
Yeah, I do mean you, only you, you've been coming through,
G G7 Dm
A - gonna build that power, build, build up that power, hah!
Cadd9 Dm Cadd9 Bb
I've been feeding the rhythm, huh, I've been feeding the rhythm,
G G7 Dm
Going to feel that power, hey, build in you! Ahhhh!
[Coda]
Cadd9 Dm Cadd9 Bb
Come on, come on, help me, do! Come on, come on help me, do!
G G7 Dm
Yeah - yeah, yeah - yeah! Yeah - yeah, yeah - yeah, you!
Cadd9 Dm Cadd9 Bb
I've been feeding my rhythm, I've been feeding my rhythm,
G G7 Dm
It's what we're doing, doing... all day and night,
Cadd9 Dm Cadd9 Bb
Ah, come on, come on, help me, do! Come on, come on, help me, do!
G G7 Dm
Yeah - yeah, yeah - yeah! Yeah - yeah, yeah - yeah, you!
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