Sledgehammer fue escrita por Peter Gabriel y es conocida por su innovador video musical de animación stop-motion. La canción trata temas de seducción y sexualidad, utilizando metáforas relacionadas con herramientas para transmitir su mensaje. Fue un gran éxito comercial para Gabriel, alcanzando la cima de las listas en los Estados Unidos. El video musical, dirigido por Stephen R. Johnson, ganó varios premios MTV Video Music Awards.
Tono: D
Song: Sledgehammer Artist: Peter Gabriel Composer: Peter Gabriel Album: So Tabbed by: DJ (Diddy D) 5th May 2014 CAPO: 1st fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Eb) Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
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= xx0232
G7
= 320001
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= x24432
C9
= x32030
A7
= x02020
Em7
= 022030
Bb
= x13331
A7(4)
= x02030
Dm
= xx0231
C
= x32010 N.C. = No chords / = Slide up = Slide down h = Hammer-on ^ = Emphasise the beat Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks =================================================================== [Intro - freely] e |---------------|---------------|-----------|-----------------| B |--3--/15--3---|--3--/15--3---|--1---/3---|-----------------| G |---------------|---------------|-----------|--2-p0-----------| D |---------------|---------------|-----------|-------3--p0-----| A |---------------|---------------|-----------|--------------3--| E |---------------|---------------|-----------|-----------------| [Main riff]
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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 |-----------------------|----------------------|
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Yeah - hey, use it, ...everybody use it! [Verse 1]
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You could have a steam train,
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If you'd just lay down your tracks,
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You could have an aero - plane flying,
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If you bring your blue sky back,
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All you do is call me, I'll be anything you need
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| /__/ /__/ / / | ^ ^ ^ ^ [Verse 2] N.C.
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You could have a big dipper,
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Going up and down, all a - round the bends,
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You could have a bumper car bumping,
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This a - musement never ends [Chorus]
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I wanna be... your sledgehammer,
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Why don't you call my name?
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Ah! Oh, let me be your sledgehammer,
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This will be my testimony,
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Yeah! Yeah!
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| / / / / | /__/ /__/ / | ^ ^ ^ ^ [Verse 3] N.C.
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Show me round your fruit cage,
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'Cause I will be your honey bee,
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Open up your fruit cage,
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With a fruit that is sweet as can be [Chorus]
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I wanna be... your sledgehammer,
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Why don't you call my name?
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Hah! You'd better call the sledgehammer,
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Put your mind at rest,
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I'm gonna be... your sledgehammer,
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This can be my testimony,
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Hah! I'm your... sledgehammer,
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Let there be no doubt about it [Bridge]
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Sledge! Sledge! | / / / / |
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Sledge - hammer! | / / / / | / / / / |
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| / / / / | / / I keep a - running! ^ ^ [Verse 4]
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I kicked the ha - bit,
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(Kicked the ha - bit, kicked the ha - bit!)
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Shed my skin, (Shed my skin!)
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This is the new stuff, (This is the new stuff!)
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I come... dancing in, we go dancing in [Verse 5]
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Oh, won't you ...show for me? (Show for me!)
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I will ...show for you, (Show for you!)
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Please, ...show for me, (Show for me!)
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I will... show for you! Yeah - yeah! Yeah - yeah!
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Yeah, I do mean you, only you, you've been coming through,
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A - gonna build that power, build, build up that power, hah!
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I've been feeding the rhythm, huh, I've been feeding the rhythm,
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Going to feel that power, hey, build in you! Ahhhh! [Coda]
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Come on, come on, help me, do! Come on, come on help me, do!