Intro:
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[Ebm brass riffs]
EbmEbmEbm/BEbm/BbEbm/AbVerse:
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[Eb bass & guitar riffs]
Eb
You could have a steam train
Ab/EbEb
If you'd just lay down your tracks
Ab/EbEb
You could have an aero-plane flying
Ab/EbEb
If you'd bring your blue skies back
Db/EbCm
All you do is call me
EbDb/Eb, Eb
I'll be anything you need
You could have a big dipper
Going up and down, all around the bends
You could have a bumper car, bumping
This amusement never ends
Chorus:
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I want to be your sledgehammer
CmDb, Fm
Why don't you call my name
CmDbFm
Oh let me be your sledgehammer
CmDbFm
this will be my testimony
Yeah....
[Eb riffs]
[verse]
Eb
Show me round your fruitcage
Ab/EbEb
'Cos I will be your honey bee
Ab/EbEb
Open up your fruitcage
Ab/EbDb/EbEb
where that fruit that is sweet as can be
[chorus]
I want to be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name
You'd better call me sledgehammer
Put your mind at rest
I'm going to be your sledgehammer
This can be my testimony
I'm your sledgehammer
Let there be no doubt about it
Sledge.... sledge.... sledgehammer
[Ebm riffs]
End Section:
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Ebm Ebm/B Ebm/Ab [repeat to end]
[Ebm brass riffs, then:]
I get it right!
I've kicked the habit (kicked the habit, kicked the habit)
Shed my skin (shed my skin)
This is the new stuff (this is the new stuff)
I go dancing in (we go dancing in)
Won't you show for me (show for me)
And I will show for you (show for you)
Please, show for me (show for me), I will show for you
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do mean you
Only you
You've been coming through
I'm going to build that power
Build, build up that power,
I've been feeding the rhythm
I've been feeding the rhythm
Going to feel that power, yeah, build in you
Come on, come on, help me through
come on, come on, help me through
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
I've been feeding the rhythm
I've been feeding the rhythm
It's what we're doing, doing
All day and night