Song: Mercy Street
Artist: Peter Gabriel
Composer: Peter Gabriel
Album: So
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar.com)
5th Mar 2013
The song was inspired after reading '45 Mercy Street'
by American poet Anne Sexton
CAPO: 4th fret (Sounds in key of C#m)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Am = x02210 Am7 = x02010 G = 320033
A7sus4 = x02030 Dm/F = 10023x F = 133211
Asus2 = x02200 Dm7 = xx0211 F/A = x03211
Am/G = 302210 F/C = x33211 G/B = x20033
F/G = 3xxxxx
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[Intro]
Am A7sus4 Asus2 Am
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Am A7sus4 Asus2 Am Am/G
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Am Asus2 Am Asus2
||: / / / / | / / / / :||[Repeat]
[Verse 1]
Am Am7
Looking down on empty streets, all she can see,
Dm/F Dm7
Are the dreams all made solid, are the dreams made real,
Am Am7
All of the buildings, all of the cars,
Dm/F Dm7
Were once just a dream in somebody's head,
Am Am7
She pictures the broken glass, pictures the steam,
Dm/F Dm7 Am
She pictures a soul with no leak at the seams!
[Link]
Am
Take the boat out! (Wait until darkness!)
Am Am/G Am
Let's take the boat out! (Wait until dark - ness comes!)
[Verse 2]
Am Am7
Nowhere in the corridors of pale green and grey,
Dm/F Dm7
Nowhere in the suburbs, in the cold light of day,
Am Am7
There in the midst of it, so a - live and alone,
F F/C G
Words support like bone!
[Chorus]
G Am F G Am Am/G F
Dreaming of Mer - cy Street, wear your in - side out,
C F F/A G/B Am G
Dreaming of mercy... in your daddy's arms a - gain,
Am F F/A G Am Am/G F
Dreaming of Mer - cy----- Street, swear they moved that sign,
C F F/A G/B Am
Dreaming of mercy... in your daddy's arms!
Am Asus2 Am Asus2
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[Instrumental break]
Am Am/G F F/G Am Am/G F F/G
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Am Am/G F Dm Am
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Am Am/G Am
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[Verse 3]
Am Am7
Pulling out the papers from the drawers that slide smooth,
Dm/F Dm7
Tugging at the darkness, word upon word,
Am Am7
Con - fessing all the secret things, in the warm velvet box,
Dm/F Dm7
To the priest, he's the doctor, he can handle the shocks,
Am Am7
Dreaming of the tenderness, the tremble in the hips,
F F/C G
Of kissing Mar - y's lips!
[Chorus]
G Am F G Am Am/G F
Dreaming of Mer - cy Street, wear your in - side out,
C F F/A G/B Am G
Dreaming of mercy... in your daddy's arms a - gain,
Am F F/A G Am Am/G F
Dreaming of Mer - cy----- Street, swear they moved that sign,
C F F/A G/B Am
Looking for mercy... in your daddy's arms!
Am Asus2 Am Asus2
||: / / / / | / / / / :||[x2]
[Instrumental break]
Am Am/G F F/G Am Am/G F F/G
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Am Am/G F Dm Am
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Am Am/G Am
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[Verse 4]
Am A7sus4 Am Am/G
Mercy ...mercy ...looking for mercy!
Am A7sus4 Am
Oo---oo, ...looking for mercy,
Am G Am G
Mercy-----, looking for mercy,
Am Asus2 G Am
Looking for mer - cy, looking for mercy,
G Am F Am
Oh - oh, mercy, looking for mercy!
[Coda]
Am Am7
Anne, with her father, is out in the boat,
Dm/F Dm7 Am
Riding the water, riding the waves... on the sea!
