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Big Time  Peter Gabriel

...BIG TIME... by Peter Gabriel
 
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*from 'So' (1986)*
*CAPO 1st FRET*
(Original Key: G#m)
Chorus 1:
Gm Bb C F Gm Bb, C F
I'm on my way, I'm making it.
Gm Bb C F Gm Bb, C F
I've got to make it show, yeah!
Gm Bb C F Gm Bb, C F
So much larger than life.
Gm Bb C F Gm Bb, C F
I'm going to watch it growing.
Break:
[Bb] Oh......[Gm]oh,
[Bb] Oh......[Gm]oh.
Verse 1:
[C7] The place where I come from, is a [Gm]small town.
[Cm] They think so small, they use small [Gm]words.
But not [C7]me; I'm smarter than that;[Gm] I worked it out.
[Cm] I've been stretching my mouth,
To let those [Gm]big words come right out.
I've had e[C7]nough, I'm getting out, to the [Gm]city, the big, big city.
[Cm] I'll be a big noise, with all the big boys,
There's [Gm]so much stuff I will own.
Bridge 1:
[F#] And I will pray to a big God,[C7] as I kneel in the big church.
Chorus 2:
[Gm] (Big Time),[Bb] I'm on my [C]way, I'm [F]making it,
[Gm] (Big Time),[Bb] oh [C]yes.[F]
[Gm] (Big Time),[Bb] I've got to [C]make it [F]show, yeah!
Gm Bb C F Gm Bb, C F
(Big Time), so much larger than life.
[Gm] (Big Time),[Bb] I'm going to [C]watch it [F]growing.
[Gm] (Big Time).[Bb]
Break:
Oh-[F]oh oh, oh oh, oh-oh oh, oh oh.
Verse 2:
[C7] My parties have all the [Gm]big names,
And I greet them with the widest [Cm]smile.
Tell them how my life is one big ad-[Gm]venture.
And always they're a-[C7]mazed,
When I show them 'round my [Gm]house, to my bed.
I had it [Cm]made like a mountain range,
With a snow-white [Gm]pillow for my big fat head.
Bridge 2:
[F#] And my Heaven will be a big Heaven,
[C7] And I will walk through the front door.
Chorus 3:
[Gm] (Big Time),[Bb] I'm on my [C]way, I'm [F]making it,
[Gm] (Big Time),[Bb] oh [C]yes.[F]
[Gm] (Big Time),[Bb] I've got to [C]make it [F]show, yeah!
Gm Bb C F Gm Bb, C F
(Big Time), so much larger than life.
[Gm] (Big Time),[Bb] I'm going to [C]watch it [F]growing.
[Gm] (Big Time).[Bb]
Coda:
[Gm] (Big Time), my car is getting bigger,
[Cm] (Big Time), my house is getting bigger.
[Gm] (Big Time), my eyes are getting bigger,
[Cm] (Big Time)...and my [Bb]mouth.
[Gm] (Big Time), my belly is getting bigger,
[Cm] (Big Time), and my bank account.
[Gm] (Big Time), look at my, circumstance,
[Cm] (Big Time), and the [Bb]bulge in my,
Big, big, big, big, big, big, [Gm]big.
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
 
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[Gm] [Bb] [C] [F] [C7] [Cm] [F#] 
[EADGBE]355333 [EADGBE]x13331 [EADGBE]x35553 [EADGBE]133211 [EADGBE]x35353 [EADGBE]x35543 [EADGBE]244322
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| ___| | | | | | | | |\_/| | __| | \ /
| |= = | | | |_| | | | = | | |____| | |
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| |___ | | = = = | | | | | |
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|_______| Joel from cLuMsY, 2008 =

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