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When All You’ve Got Is A Hammer - Gretchen Peters
(Verse 1)
Am
There’s a bible on the table
C
there's a bottle on the shelf
F Am
there's a woman in the kitchen
E7
cryin' quietly to herself
Am
down the hallway, in the bedroom
C
you can hear his children wail
F Am
when all you got is a hammer
E7 Am
everything looks like a nail.
(Verse 2)
Am
well he came home from the desert
C
with a medal on his chest
F Am
like a hero, like a champion
E7
but he felt more like a guest
Am
now he sleeps with one eye open
C
and he wakes up scared as hell
F Am
and all he's got is a hammer
E7 Am
and everything looks like a nail.
|(Chorus)
| C G
|well they teach you how to shoot and they show you how to kill
| Dm E7
|but they don't show you what to do with this hole that you can't fill
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|so you dwell in the darkness of your soul like Jonah in the belly of the whale
| F Am E7 Am
|and all you got is a hammer and everything looks like a nail.
(Verse 3)
Am
when a good man in a bad dream
C
can't make it on his own
F Am
when he can't feed his own damn children
E7
on the money that he brings home
Am
and the deck is stacked against him
C
and he knows he's bound to fail
F Am
and all he's got is a hammer
E7 Am
everything looks like a nail.
(Chorus x 2)
F Am E7 Am
When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
(Added by Rodger, Bangor Ukes - Sept ‘24)