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From: [email protected] (Chris Tapio)
Big Time (Peter Gabriel)
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(Disclaimer: no guarantee of correctness or completeness of transcription
is given with respect to 7ths, inversions, fingering, and choice of #/b.
Any major blunders, questions and suggestions to [email protected] ;^)
Intro:
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I’m on my way I’m making it
Abm Abm/B Db/F Db7sus4/Gb Abm Abm/B Db/F Db7sus4/Gb
I’ve got to make it show, yeah
Abm Abm/B Db/F Db7sus4/Gb Abm Abm/B Db/F Db7sus4/Gb
So much larger than life
Abm Abm/B Db/F Db7sus4/Gb Abm Abm/B Dbm/F Db7sus4/Gb
I’m going to watch it growing, hey hey hey
Abm Abm/B Db/F Db7sus4/Gb Abm Abm/B Db/F Db7sus4/Gb
Hey……
Abm, Ebsus4/Ab, Abm, B/Ab, Db7/Ab, Bbm/Ab, Abm
Verse:
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The place where I come from is a small town
Db7/Ab Db7sus4/Ab
They think so small, they use small words
Dbm7/Ab Abm
But not me, I’m smarter than that, I worked it out
Db7/Ab Db7sus4/Ab
I’ve been stretching my mouth to let those big words come right out
Dbm7/Ab Abm
I’ve had enough, I’m getting out, to the city, the big big city
Db7/Ab Db7sus4/Ab
I’ll be a big noise with all the big boys, so much stuff I will own
Dbm7/Ab Abm
And I will pray to a big god, as I kneel in the big church
G-5 Db7/F
Chorus:
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Big time, I’m on my way, I’m making it, big time
Abm Abm/B Db/F Db7sus4/Gb Abm Abm/B Db/F Db7sus4/Gb
Big time, I’ve got to make it show-yeah, big time
Abm Abm/B Db/F Db7sus4/Gb Abm Abm/B Dbsus4/Gb
Big time, so much larger than life
Abm Abm/B Db/F Db7sus4/Gb Abm Abm/B Db/F Db7sus4/Gb
Big time, I’m going to watch it growing, big time
Abm Abm/B Db/F Db7sus4/Gb Abm Abm/B
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Gbsus4 Gb, Gbsus4 Gb
My parties all have big names
And I greet them with the widest smile
Tell them how my life is one big adventure^
And always they’re amazed
When I show them round my house, to my bed
I had it made like a mountain range
With a snow-white pillow for my big fat head
And my heaven will be a big heaven
And I will walk through the front door [chorus to end] Big time, I’m on my way, I’m making it, big time
Big time, I’ve got to make it show-yeah, big time
Big time, so much larger than life
Big time, I’m going to watch it growing, big time
Dbsus4/Gb
My car getting bigger
Big time, my house getting bigger
Big time, my eyes getting bigger
Big time, and my mouth
Gbsus4/Gb Gb
Big time, my belly is getting bigger
Big time, and my bank account
Big time, look at my circumstance
Big time, and the bulge in my big big big big big big … big
Db7sus4/Gb Abm
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// What makes mass society so difficult to bear //
// is not the number of people involved…but //
// the fact that the world between them has lost //
// its power to gather them together, to relate //
// and to separate them. — Hannah Arendt, 1958 //
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// Chris Tapio [email protected] //
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