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Version 1
...BIG TIME... by Peter Gabriel
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*from 'So' (1986)*
(modified from Johnny Couchman's original tab: s)
*CAPO 1st FRET*
(Original Key: G#m)
Chorus 1:
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
I'm on my way, I'm making it.
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
I've got to make it show, yeah!
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
So much larger than life.
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
I'm going to watch it growing.
Break:
Gm Dsus4/G, Gm C7/G, Am/G, Gm
Oh...
Verse 1:
C7/G C7sus4/G
The place where I come from, is a small town.
Cm7/G Gm
They think so small, they use small words.
C7/G C7sus4/G
But not me; I'm smarter than that; I worked it out.
Cm7/G
I've been stretching my mouth,
Gm
To let those big words come right out.
C7/G C7sus4/G
I've had e-nough, I'm getting out, to the city, the big, big city.
Cm7/G
I'll be a big noise, with all the big boys,
Gm
There's so much stuff I will own.
Bridge 1:
F#b5 C7/E
And I will pray to a big God, as I kneel in the big church.
Chorus 2:
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time), I'm on my way, I'm making it,
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time), oh yes.
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time), I've got to make it show, yeah!
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time), so much larger than life.
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time), I'm going to watch it growing.
Gm Gm/Bb
(Big Time).
Break:
Fsus4 F Fsus4 F
Oh-oh oh, oh oh, oh-oh oh, oh oh.
Verse 2:
C7/G C7sus4/G
My parties have all the big names,
Cm7/G
And I greet them with the widest smile.
Gm
Tell them how my life is one big ad-venture.
C7/G
And always they're a-mazed,
C7sus4/G
When I show them 'round my house, to my bed.
Cm7/G
I had it made like a mountain range,
Gm
With a snow-white pillow for my big fat head.
Bridge 2:
F#b5
And my Heaven will be a big Heaven,
C7/E
And I will walk through the front door.
Chorus 3:
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time), I'm on my way, I'm making it,
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time).
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F Gm Gm/Bb, C7sus4
(Big Time), I've got to make it show, yeah!
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time), so much larger than life.
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time), I'm going to watch it growing.
Gm Gm/Bb, C7sus4
(Big Time).
Coda:
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time), my car is getting bigger,
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time), my house is getting bigger.
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time), my eyes are getting bigger,
Gm Gm/Bb Fsus4 F
(Big Time)... and my mouth...
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time), my belly is getting bigger,
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time), and my bank ac-count.
Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F
(Big Time), look at my, circum-stance,
Gm Gm/Bb Fsus4
(Big Time), and the bulge in my,
Gm
Big, big, big, big, big, big, big.
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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Gm Gm/Bb C/E C7sus4/F Dsus4/G C7/G Am/G
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
355333 x10333 xx2010 113311 300033 335353 302210
C7sus4/G Cm7/G F#b5 C7/E Fsus4 F C7sus4
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
335363 335343 2343xx 032310 133311 133211 x35363
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2008 ()
We also have 15 songs by Peter Gabriel
- Big Time
- Biko
- Come Talk To Me
- Digging In The Dirt
- Dont Give Up
- Games Without Frontiers
- Here Comes The Flood
- In Your Eyes
- Mercy Street
- Red Rain
- Shock The Monkey
- Sledgehammer
- Solsbury Hill
- The Book Of Love
- Washing Of The Water
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