Sledgehammer
Song: Sledgehammer
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)
DCDCadd9
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!
DCadd9 D CadD9 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 Cadd9D
| /__/ /__/ /
^ ^ ^ ^
D Cadd9
You could have a big dipper,
DCadd9 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,
BC Em7
Why don't you call my name?
BC Em7
Ah! Oh, let me be your sledgehammer,
BC Em7
This will be my testimony,
D CDdd9 Cadd9
Yeah! Yeah!
D Cadd9 D D Cadd9D
| / / / / | /__/ /__/ /
^ ^ ^ ^
D CadD9 Cadd9
Show me round your fruit cage, | / / / / |
D Cadd9 D
'Cause I will be your honey bee,
Cadd9 D CadD9 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,
BC Em7
Why don't you call my name?
BmC Em7
Hah! You'd better call the sledgehammer,
BC Em7
Put your mind at rest,
Bm CEm7
I'm gonna be... your sledgehammer,
BC Em7
This can be my testimony,
BC Em7
Hah! I'm your... sledgehammer,
BC Em7
Let there be no doubt about it!
Dm CDmd9 CadDm Cadd9
Sledge! Sledge! | / / / / |
Dm Cadd9 Dm Cadd9 Dm Cadd9
Sledge - hammer! | / / / / | / / / / |
Bb C G7 G Dm Cadd9Dm 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 Cadd9Dm Cadd9
Oh, won't you ...show for me? (Show for me!)
Bb G G7
I will ...show for you, (Show for you!)
Dm Cadd9Dm 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!