Home Sweet Home chords by Peter Gabriel

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
N.C.
C minorCm Eb MajorEb FF
C minorCm DmDm Eb MajorEb FF


Verse 1:
Bb majorBb               Bb7Bb7
Met this girl called Josephine
                C majorC
And took her up on my machine
          C#dim7C#dim7
We had a little fun
               Bb majorBb
And now we got a little one
      G minorGm    Bb majorBb
Had to get married
          G minorGm  FF
Being chased out of town

Found ourselves a place to live
  Eb MajorEb
We put all our money down

Chorus 1:
     C minorCm     Bb majorBb  Eb MajorEb     Bb majorBb   AbAb
Called it home sweet home, home sweet home
           FF      Bb majorBb
Eleven floors up in a tower block, happy just to have a home
   Bdim7Bdim7              C minorCm DmDm Eb MajorEb Fsus4Fsus4 FF  C minorCm DmDm Eb MajorEb Eb MajorEb FF
I've gone and changed the lock on our home


Verse 2:
Bb majorBb               Bb7Bb7
Nothing really worked out right
                    C majorC
Things got broke, they stayed that way
                    C#dim7C#dim7
None of our friends came round at night
                Bb majorBb
Little Sam got no place to play
             G minorGm            Bb majorBb
"We've got to get out of here, Bill," she said
      G minorGm            FF
"I've been saying it all the while"

When I came home from work that night
   Eb MajorEb
She'd jumped out the window with our child

Chorus 2:
     C minorCm     Bb majorBb  Eb MajorEb     Bb majorBb   AbAb
From our home sweet home, home sweet home
            FF   Bb majorBb           Bdim7Bdim7
Just a place to take a rest, just a place to make a nest
      C minorCm DmDm Eb MajorEb Fsus4Fsus4 FF  C minorCm DmDm Eb MajorEb Eb MajorEb FF
We call it home


Verse 3:
Bb majorBb                   Bb7Bb7
When the insurance money came through
                     C majorC
It seemed dirty, didn't know what to do
                      C#dim7C#dim7
Took out the cash, went down to the casino
                Bb majorBb
Down on the wheel on a double
         G minorGm     Bb majorBb    G minorGm   FF
And I won, yes I won, like I never won before
                   Eb MajorEb
Bought myself a country house with an antique carved oak door


Chorus 3:
    C minorCm     Bb majorBb  Eb MajorEb     Bb majorBb   AbAb
It was home sweet home, home sweet home
         FF   Bb majorBb           Bdim7Bdim7
Just a place to lay our head, think of all the things we said
       C minorCm DmDm Eb MajorEb Fsus4Fsus4 FF  C minorCm DmDm Eb MajorEb Eb MajorEb FF
About in our home sweet home