Waiting For The Big One chords by Peter Gabriel

Waiting For The Big One


Key: C major, Time: 6/8, Tempo: 93

Intro:

|:C7  |   |Ab7  |  :| (x 2)

|Cm F Cm7|  |F7/A Cm7 F7/A|  |
|E7  /F# |/G  /Ab |Am /B |/C  /A |

|F7   |/C   |
|D7   |/A   |G   |F/A F#/Bb |
|G/B  |    ||

Verse 1: {With piano only, tempo rubato} (0:54-)

|C7  |        |Ab7   |   |
  The wine's all drunk  and so am I
|C7       |        |Ab7   |   |
  Here with the hoi-poloi, don't  ask me why
|Cm   F Cm7 |   |F7     Cm/F  F7 |   |
  We're cele-brat-in' an-ticipatin' end of the year
|E7     |/F# /Ab |Am      |  |
  Everybody come,   everybody here

|F7      |   |
  Well more or less,
|D7    |/E  /F#  |G  |F/A F#/Bb |
  Some al-read-y in a mess
|G/B       |          ||
  I guess they're waiting for the big one.


[Verse 2] {Enters the band, play the intro} (1:44-)

 Wonder why I'm cold. How did I get this far?
 Had no money, had no car
 I pray the snow goes, be bad if it settles
 'Cos I follow my nose and the dried up rose petals

 Like the man says,
 Sure hope Moses knows his roses
 Or we'll all be waiting for the big one.


Interlude 1: (2:31-)

|C  | (x 4 bars)

|F  |G  |Ab  |Bb  |C  |   ||

|Dm  |Eb  |F  |G  |Ab  |Bb  ||



[Verse 3] (3:03-)

 Once I was the credit to my credit card
 spent what I hadn't got, wasn't hard
 No trust in judgement no trust in money
 Someday I'll find myself like a bee finding honey, oh

 But in the meantime, ah
 I'm gonna have me some fun
 Waiting for the big one.


[Verse 4] (3:50-)

 One too many, where ego I go too
 Looking for the real thing
 It don't come from what I do
 No real communication moves out of my face
 I'm beginning to think, yeah, I'm just out of place, a-ha

 Won't get in too deep,
 I want to get some sleep
 To be ready for the big one,

 To be ready for the big one


Interlude 2: (4:43-)

|C  | (x 4 bars)

|F  |G  |Ab  |Bb  |
|C  |   |   |   ||

|Dm  |Eb  |F  |G  |Ab  |Bb  ||


(Intro) (5:20-) {Bluesy guitar solo}


Coda: (6:07-)

|C  | (x 4 bars)

{Enter female vocals, tempo rubato}
|F  |G  |Ab  |Bb       |
 Ah,  ah,  uh,  waiting for the
|C   |  |  |  ||
 big one________

|Dm  |Eb  |F  |G  |Ab  |
 Ah,  ah,  ah,  ah,  uh,
|Bb       |C   ||
 wainting for the big one___

{Drum solo}
|   |   |   ||

|Dm  |Eb  |F  |G  |
 Ah,  ah,  ah,  ah,
|Ab  |Bb  |C  |   ||