Biography:
Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957 in Bronxville, New York) is an American singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. An accomplished song-writer, she won the Country Music Association Song Of The Year award in 1994 for "Independence Day", a hit at the time for Martina McBride. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Though born in New York, Peter's was raised in Boulder, Colorado, and then moved to Nashville in the late 1980s.
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- Billy 4
- Black Ribbons
- Blackbirds
- Blessing In Disguise
- Border Town
- Careful How You Go
- Child Of Mine
- Circus Girl
- Dark Angel
- December Child
- Drowning In You
- Everything Falls Away
- Five Minutes
- Germantown
- Ghost
- Guadalupe
- Hello Cruel World
- I Aint Ever Satisfied
- I Dont Know
- I Was Looking For You
- I Wonder As I Wander
- Idlewild
- If Heaven
- If I Had A Gun
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Independence Day
- Jubilee
- Lilies Of The Field
- Love And Texaco
- Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea
- Northern Lights
- On A Bus To St Cloud
- On A Bus To Stcloud
- Over Africa
- Paradise Found
- Picasso And Me
- Prairie In The Sky
- Pretty Things
- Revival
- Saint Francis
- Song For A Winters Night
- Souvenirs
- Sunday Morning Up And Down My Street
- The Aviators Song
- The House On Auburn Street
- The Matador
- The Way You Move Me
- This Town
- This Used To Be My Town
- To Say Goodbye
- Tomorrow Morning
- Truckstop Angel
- Waitin On Mary
- Waiting For Amelia
- Waiting For The Light
- Waiting For The Light To Turn Green
- When All You Got Is A Hammer
- When You Are Old
- When You Comin Home
- Wild Horses
- Woman On The Wheel
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Song: When all you got is a hammer (Live acoustic)
Artist: Gretchen Peters
Composer: Gretchen Peters
Album: Blackbirds
Tabbed by DJ
31st Nov 2015
This tab is based more on Gretchen's live acoustic version which actually
has no instrumental verse, but I do include the chord progression for
those who want to play along with the album version *. The bass guitar plays
additional little runs on the album, which I haven't included here.
CAPO: 5th fret (Sounds in the key of Am)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Em = 022000 C = 332010 G/F# = 2x0003 Emadd9 = 022002
Em/A = x02000 B7 = x21202 D = xx0232
G = 320003 B7/F# = 2x1202 Am = x02210
Live video of this song at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76J3Dq7UN5s
*******************************************************************************
[Intro]
Em Em/A
||: / / / / | / / / / :|| [x2]
[Verse 1]
Em G
There’s a bible on the table, there’s a bottle on the shelf,
C Em B7 B7/F# B7 B7/F#
There’s a woman in the kitchen crying quietly to her - self,
Em G
Down the hallway, in the bedroom, he can hear his children wail,
C Em B7 B7/F# Em
When all you got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!
[Verse 2]
Em G
Well, he came home, from the desert, with a medal on his chest,
C Em B7 B7/F# B7 B7/F#
Like a hero, like a champion, but he felt more like a guest,
Em G
Now he sleeps with one eye open, and he wakes up scared as hell,
C Em B7 B7/F# Em
And all he’s got is a hammer, and everything looks like a nail!
[Verse 3]
G/F# G D
They show you how to shoot, and they show you how to kill,
Am B7 B7/F# B7 B7/F#
But they don’t show you what to do with this hole that you can’t fill,
B7 B7/F# Em
So you dwell in the darkness of your soul,
G
Like Jonah in the belly of a whale,
C Em B7 B7/F# Em
And all you got is a hammer, and everything looks like a nail!
* [Instrumental Verse - on album version]
Em G
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
C Em B7 B7/F# B7 B7/F#
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Em G
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
C Em B7 B7/F# Em
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Em
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 4]
Em G
When a good man, in a bad dream, can’t make it on his own,
C Em B7 B7/F# B7 B7/F#
When he can’t feed his own damn children on the money that he brings home,
Em G
And the deck is stacked against him, and he knows he’s bound to fail,
C Em B7 B7/F# Em
And all he’s got is a hammer, and everything looks like a nail!
[Verse 5]
G/F# G D
Well, they show you how to shoot, and they show you how to kill,
Am B7 B7/F# B7 B7/F#
But they don’t show you what to do with this hole that you can’t fill,
B7 B7/F# Em
So you dwell in the darkness of your soul,
G
Like Jonah in the belly of a whale,
C Em B7 B7/F# Em
And all you've got is a hammer, and everything looks like a nail!
C Em B7 Em
Yeah, all you got is a hammer, and everything looks like a nail!
| / / / / |
[Coda]
Em/A Em Em/A
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Em Em/A Em Emadd9
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / ||
Artist: Gretchen Peters
Composer: Gretchen Peters
Album: Blackbirds
Tabbed by DJ
31st Nov 2015
This tab is based more on Gretchen's live acoustic version which actually
has no instrumental verse, but I do include the chord progression for
those who want to play along with the album version *. The bass guitar plays
additional little runs on the album, which I haven't included here.
CAPO: 5th fret (Sounds in the key of Am)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Em = 022000 C = 332010 G/F# = 2x0003 Emadd9 = 022002
Em/A = x02000 B7 = x21202 D = xx0232
G = 320003 B7/F# = 2x1202 Am = x02210
Live video of this song at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76J3Dq7UN5s
*******************************************************************************
[Intro]
Em Em/A
||: / / / / | / / / / :|| [x2]
[Verse 1]
Em G
There’s a bible on the table, there’s a bottle on the shelf,
C Em B7 B7/F# B7 B7/F#
There’s a woman in the kitchen crying quietly to her - self,
Em G
Down the hallway, in the bedroom, he can hear his children wail,
C Em B7 B7/F# Em
When all you got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!
[Verse 2]
Em G
Well, he came home, from the desert, with a medal on his chest,
C Em B7 B7/F# B7 B7/F#
Like a hero, like a champion, but he felt more like a guest,
Em G
Now he sleeps with one eye open, and he wakes up scared as hell,
C Em B7 B7/F# Em
And all he’s got is a hammer, and everything looks like a nail!
[Verse 3]
G/F# G D
They show you how to shoot, and they show you how to kill,
Am B7 B7/F# B7 B7/F#
But they don’t show you what to do with this hole that you can’t fill,
B7 B7/F# Em
So you dwell in the darkness of your soul,
G
Like Jonah in the belly of a whale,
C Em B7 B7/F# Em
And all you got is a hammer, and everything looks like a nail!
* [Instrumental Verse - on album version]
Em G
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
C Em B7 B7/F# B7 B7/F#
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Em G
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
C Em B7 B7/F# Em
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Em
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 4]
Em G
When a good man, in a bad dream, can’t make it on his own,
C Em B7 B7/F# B7 B7/F#
When he can’t feed his own damn children on the money that he brings home,
Em G
And the deck is stacked against him, and he knows he’s bound to fail,
C Em B7 B7/F# Em
And all he’s got is a hammer, and everything looks like a nail!
[Verse 5]
G/F# G D
Well, they show you how to shoot, and they show you how to kill,
Am B7 B7/F# B7 B7/F#
But they don’t show you what to do with this hole that you can’t fill,
B7 B7/F# Em
So you dwell in the darkness of your soul,
G
Like Jonah in the belly of a whale,
C Em B7 B7/F# Em
And all you've got is a hammer, and everything looks like a nail!
C Em B7 Em
Yeah, all you got is a hammer, and everything looks like a nail!
| / / / / |
[Coda]
Em/A Em Em/A
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Em Em/A Em Emadd9
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / ||
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