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Hi,



First off I would like to thank you for providing this service.  I had

all but given up on playing when I found this resource. This fresh input

has revived my love.



I noticed a request for Sledgehammer in the most-wanted list.  I found

the following crd for this at another site.  The originators address is

at the top. I attempted to contact him/her to see if they minded me

forwarding this to you  but couldn't get mail through to that address. I

kinda figured if it was in a public ftp directory they might not mind it

being spread around.  I am sending the file intact incase you or anyone

else wishes to attempt to contact him/her.



Again thanks for being there and doing all this for all of us.



Regards,



Christopher Martin (cmartin@martin.idi.oclc.org)





Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)

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(Disclaimer: no guarantee of correctness or completeness of transcription 

 is given with respect to 7ths, inversions, fingering, and choice of #/b.

 Any major blunders, questions and suggestions to djb@uk.ac.bath.maths ;^)



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]



You could have a steam train

                       Eb Db/Eb, Eb Db/Eb



If you'd just lay down your tracks

Ab/Eb         Eb  Db/Eb            Eb





You could have an aero-plane flying

Db/Eb     Ab/Eb     Eb Db/Eb        Eb Db/Eb



If you'd bring your blue skies back

Ab/Eb          Eb   Db/Eb           Eb 



All you do is call me

Db/Eb         Cm          



I'll be anything you need

                          Eb Db/Eb, Eb



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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I want to be           your sledgehammer

          Cm Db,    Fm



                 Why don't you call my name

          Cm Db,               Fm      Fm   Eb/F



                 Oh let me be your sledgehammer

	  Cm Db            Fm



		this will be my testimony

	  Cm Db           Fm



   Yeah.... 

[Eb riffs]



[verse]

Show me round your fruitcage

                   Eb         Ab/Eb  Eb



'Cos I will be your honey bee

            Eb      Db/Eb Eb



Open up your fruitcage

             Eb        Ab/Eb Eb



where that fruit that is sweet as can be

           Eb            Db/Eb        Eb



[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