• Song:

    Sledgehammer

  • Artist:

    Peter Gabriel

  • Album:

    Shaking The Tree - 16 G...

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Intro:
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[Ebm brass riffs]

Ebm Ebm Ebm/B Ebm/Bb Ebm/Ab


Verse:
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[Eb bass & guitar riffs]

Eb 
You could have a steam train
Ab/Eb                        Eb                       
If you'd just lay down your tracks
                    Ab/Eb      Eb 
You could have an aero-plane flying
          Ab/Eb                 Eb 
If you'd bring your blue skies back


     Db/Eb    Cm 
All you do is call me
                     Eb Db/Eb , Eb
I'll be anything you need

You could have a big dipper

Going up and down, all around the bends

You could have a bumper car, bumping

This amusement never ends

Chorus:
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           Cm Db ,    Fm
I want to be           your sledgehammer
          Cm Db ,               Fm      
                 Why don't you call my name
        Cm Db            Fm
                 Oh let me be your sledgehammer
        Cm Db           Fm
            this will be my testimony

   Yeah.... 
[Eb riffs]


[verse]
                   Eb         
Show me round your fruitcage
            Ab/Eb           Eb
'Cos I will be your honey bee
            Ab/Eb           Eb
Open up your fruitcage
            Ab/Eb         Db/Eb       Eb
where that fruit that is sweet as can be

[chorus] 

I want to be your sledgehammer

Why don't you call my name

You'd better call me sledgehammer

Put your mind at rest

I'm going to be your sledgehammer

This can be my testimony

I'm your sledgehammer

Let there be no doubt about it

   Sledge.... sledge.... sledgehammer
[Ebm riffs]


End Section:
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Ebm Ebm/B Ebm/Ab [repeat to end]

[Ebm brass riffs, then:]

I get it right!
I've kicked the habit (kicked the habit, kicked the habit)
Shed my skin (shed my skin)
This is the new stuff (this is the new stuff)
I go dancing in (we go dancing in)
Won't you show for me (show for me)
And I will show for you (show for you)
Please, show for me (show for me), I will show for you
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do mean you
Only you
You've been coming through
I'm going to build that power
Build, build up that power, 
I've been feeding the rhythm
I've been feeding the rhythm
Going to feel that power, yeah, build in you
Come on, come on, help me through
come on, come on, help me through
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
I've been feeding the rhythm
I've been feeding the rhythm
It's what we're doing, doing
All day and night
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