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
| / / / / | /__/ /__/ /
^ ^ ^ ^
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/p/peter_gabriel/sledgehammer_crd_ver_3.html ]
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
Yeah - yeah, yeah - yeah! Yeah - yeah, yeah - yeah, you!
