Sledgehammer chords by Peter Gabriel (Ver. 2)

Artist: Peter Gabriel
Song: Sledgehammer
Tabbed by: DJ
5th May 2014

A version for acoustic guitar

CAPO: 1st fret (Sounds in the key of Eb)

Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
D   = xx0232   G7   = 320001  Em7 = 022030
Cadd9 = x32003   A7   = x02020  Dm = xx0231
Bb  = x13331   A7sus4 = x02030
C   = x32010   Bm   = x24432

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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!


D Cadd9        D     Cadd9   D  Cadd9
  You could have a steam train,    | / / / / |
      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
| /__/ /__/  /
  ^ ^   ^  ^

         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!


    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
| / /  / / | /__/ /__/  /
          ^ ^   ^  ^

           D     Cadd9  D  Cadd9
Show me round your fruit cage,   | / / / / |
       D    Cadd9 D
'Cause I will be your honey bee,
Cadd9     D    Cadd9   D  Cadd9
Open up your fruit cage,    | / / / / |
    D      Cadd9    D  Cadd9
With a fruit that is sweet as can be!


    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!


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!
         ^ ^

Dm         Cadd9          Dm         Cadd9
  I kicked the ha - bit, (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 dan...cing in!


       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, haaaa,
      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!


  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