When All You Got Is A Hammer Cifras

Song: When all you got is a hammer (Live acoustic)
Artist: Gretchen Peters
Composer: Gretchen Peters
Album: Blackbirds
Tabbed by DJ  31st Nov 2015
 
Live video of this song at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76J3Dq7UN5s
 
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 (Will then sound in the recorded 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
 
 
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[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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