[Intro figures] With thumb and first 2 fingers Fret D14 and B17 in advance and keep fretted to ring e ------------ B ---------17-17-- G ---14h16------16p14--- D 14------------------14 A ------------ E ------------
[Pickup to start - BPM 96] e ------------------- B ------------------- G ------------------ D ----------------- A -2p0--------------- E ----3p0------------
[Drum fill to stop - play all Ds with snare] [E].[E][E][E][E]. [E](stop)
[Verse 1 - emphasise playing E on the snare and swing Dsus4 - x 2 3 &4] You could have a [E] steam train, [Dsus2] [E][Dsus2] If you'd [E] just lay [Dsus2] down your [E] tracks, [Dsus2] You could have an [E] aero - [Dsus2] plane [E] flying, [Dsus2] If you [E] bring your [Dsus2] blue sky [E] back, [Dsus2] All you do is [C#m] call me, I'll be anything you [E] need [Dsus2]
[E][Dsus2] [Drum fill to stop - play all Ds with snare] [E].[E][E][E][E]. [E](stop)
[Verse 2] [N.C.] You could have a [E] big dipper, [Dsus2] [E][Dsus2] Going up and [E] down, all a - [Dsus2] round the [E] bends, [Dsus2] You could have a [E] bumper [Dsus2] car [E] bumping, [Dsus2] This a - [E] musement [Dsus2] never [E] ends [Dsus2]
[Chorus open chords as much as possible - breath backwards for Ah - Bm and C on consecutive beats] I wanna be [C#m][D/F#] ...... [F#min7] your sledgehammer, [C#m][D/F#] Why don't you [F#min7] call my name? [C#m][D/F#]Ah! Oh, let me [F#min7]be your sledgehammer, [C#m][D/F#] This will [F#min7]be my testimony
xx[E]x [Dsus2]xxx xx[E]x [Dsus2]xxx Yeah! Yeah! xx[E]x [Dsus2]xxx [E](Drum fill to stop - strum D)
[Verse 3] [N.C.] Show me round your fruit [E] cage, [Dsus2] [E][Dsus2] 'Cause I will be [E] your [Dsus2] honey [E] bee, [Dsus2] Open up your [E] fruit cage, [Dsus2] [E][Dsus2] With a fruit [E] that is [Dsus2] sweet as can be [E][Dsus2]
[Chorus] I wanna be [C#m][D/F#] .. [F#min7] your sledgehammer, [C#m][D/F#]Why don't you [F#min7] call my name? [C#m][D/F#]Hah! You'd better [F#min7] call the sledgehammer, [C#m][D/F#] Put your [F#min7] mind at rest, I'm gonna be [C#m][D/F#][F#min7] your sledgehammer, [C#m][D/F#] This can [F#min7] be my testimony, [C#m][D/F#] Hah! I'm your.. [F#min7] . sledgehammer, [C#m][D/F#] Let there [F#min7] be no doubt about it
[Verse 4] [Em] I kicked the ha - [Dsus2] bit, (Kicked the ha - [Em] bit, kicked the ha - [Dsus2] bit!) [C] Shed my skin, [A] (Shed my [A7] skin!) [Em] This is the [Dsus2] new stuff, [Em] (This is the [Dsus2] new stuff!) I come.. [C] . dancing in, we go [A] dancing [A7] in
[Verse 5] Oh, won't you [Em] ...show for [Dsus2] me? [Em] (Show for [Dsus2] me!) I will [C] ...show for you, [A] (Show for [A7] you!) Please, [Em] ...show for [Dsus2] me, [Em] (Show for [Dsus2] me!) I will... [C] show for you! [A] Yeah - yeah! Yeah - yeah! (bass drum + snare - 8 hits) [A7] Yeah, I do mean [Em] you, [Dsus2] only [Em] you, you've been [Dsus2] coming [C] through, A - gonna build that [A] power, [A7] build, build up that [Em] power, hah! I've been [Dsus2] feeding the [Em] rhythm, huh, I've been [Dsus2] feeding the [C] rhythm, Going to feel that [A] power, [A7] hey, build in [Em] you! Ahhhh!
[Coda] Come [Dsus2] on, come on, [Em] help me, do! Come [Dsus2] on, come on [C] help me, do! [A] Yeah - yeah, yeah - yeah! [A7] Yeah - yeah, yeah - yeah, [Em] you! I've been [Dsus2] feeding my [Em] rhythm, I've been [Dsus2] feeding my [C] rhythm, It's what we're [A] doing, doing. [A7] .. all day and [Em] night, Ah, come [Dsus2] on, come on, [Em] help me, do! Come [Dsus2] on, come on, [C] help me, do! [A] Yeah - yeah, yeah - yeah! [A7] Yeah - yeah, yeah - yeah, [Em] you!
[Intro Keyboard riff - BPM 116 - G = 3x003x G* = 355433, C/G 335553 - Capo 2 for original key] GxxG* xxxx x(C/G)Gx (C/G)xxx GxxG* xx(C/G)G* xxxx xxxx
[Verse] [Am] So [G/B] wild, [C] standing [G] there , ....[G] with her hands in her [Em] hair [Am] I [G/B] can't [C] help re [G] member,...... [Em] just where she touched me [Fadd9] [Dm7] ....... There's [C]still [G]no face [Dm7] ....... here [C]in [G]her place
[Verse] [Am] So [G/B] cool, [C] she [G] was like [D7sus4-xx0213] jazz on a summer's day [D7] [Am] Mu- [G/B] sic, [C] high [G] and sweet, [D7sus4] then she just blew away [D7]
[Chorus - just bass drum Bxxb Bxxx - Esus2/G# = 476454 - no sus2] [D/F#] Now she [C] can't be that [G] warm [D/F#] with the [C] wind in her [G] arms - Va le (drums back in) [C] Rie [G] eeee [D] call on [C] me, call on [Em] me [G] eeee [C] Vale [G/B] rie Come and [Csus2] (drums stop) see--------(b+Csus2 b+Csus2 - second on me) me, I'm the same (bass drum in) boy I used to be
[Verse] [Am] Love [G/B] songs [C] fill the [G] night,....[G] but they don't tell it [Em] all, [Am] Not [G/B] how [C] lovers [G] cry out,..... [Em] just like they are dy [Fadd9] ying [Dm7] .......... Her [C]cries [G]hang there [Dm7] ....... in [C]time [G]somewhere
[Verse] [Am] Some [G/B] day, [C] some [G] good wind, [D7sus4] may blow her back to me [D7] [Am] Some [G/B] night [C] I__ [G] may hear, [D7sus4] her like she used to be [D7]
[Chorus] [D/F#] No they [C] can't be that [G] warm [D/F#] with the [C] wind in her [G] arms Vale [C] rie,---- [G] ------- [D] call on [C] me, call on [Em] me,--- [G] ------- [C] Valer [G/B] ie Come and [Csus2] see--------me, I'm the same boy I used to be
[Verse] [Am] So [G/B] cool, [C] she [G] was like, [D7sus4] jazz on a summer's day [D7] [Am] Mu- [G/B] sic, [C] high [G] and sweet, [D7sus4] then she just blew away [D7]
[Chorus - just bass drum Bxxb Bxxx] [D/F#] Now she [C] can't be that [G] warm [D/F#] with the [C] wind in her [G] arms - Va le (drums back in) [C] Rie [G] eeee [D] call on [C] me, call on [Em] me [G] eeee [C] Vale [G/B] rie Come and [Csus2] (drums stop) see--------(b+Csus2 b+Csus2 - second on me) me, I'm the same (bass drum in) boy I used to be
[Riff] GxxG* xxxx x(C/G)Gx (C/G)xxx GxxG* xx(C/G)G* xxxx xxxx [Ending] GxxG* xxxx x(C/G)Gx (C/G)xxx I'm the [G] same boy I used be.___ [G] (hard stop) [End]
