• Song:

    Sledgehammer

  • Artist:

    Peter Gabriel

  • Album:

    Shaking The Tree - 16 G...

Intro:
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[Eb5 brass riffs]

Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5


Verse:
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[Eb5 bass & guitar riffs]

Eb5 
You could have a steam train
Ab5                        Eb5                       
If you'd just lay down your tracks
                    Ab5      Eb5 
You could have an aero-plane flying
          Ab5                 Eb5 
If you'd bring your blue skies back


     Db5    C5 
All you do is call me
                     Eb5 Db5 , Eb5
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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           C5 Db5 ,    F5
I want to be           your sledgehammer
          C5 Db5 ,               F5      
                 Why don't you call my name
        C5 Db5            F5
                 Oh let me be your sledgehammer
        C5 Db5           F5
            this will be my testimony

   Yeah.... 
[Eb5 riffs]


[verse]
                   Eb5         
Show me round your fruitcage
            Ab5           Eb5
'Cos I will be your honey bee
            Ab5           Eb5
Open up your fruitcage
            Ab5         Db5       Eb5
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
[Eb5 riffs]


End Section:
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Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 [repeat to end]

[Eb5 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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