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Gretchen Peters - When All You Got Is A Hammer Chords

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When All You Got Is A Hammer Chords

(ver. 2)
Gretchen Peters

[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've got is a hammer, and everything looks like a nail!


[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      Em/A Em
Yeah, all you've got is a hammer, and everything looks like a nail!            
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