Biography:
Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957 in Bronxville, New York) is an American singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. An accomplished song-writer, she won the Country Music Association Song Of The Year award in 1994 for "Independence Day", a hit at the time for Martina McBride. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Though born in New York, Peter's was raised in Boulder, Colorado, and then moved to Nashville in the late 1980s.
Read more on Last.fm
Other songs:
- Billy 4
- Black Ribbons
- Blackbirds
- Blessing In Disguise
- Border Town
- Careful How You Go
- Child Of Mine
- Circus Girl
- Dark Angel
- December Child
- Drowning In You
- Everything Falls Away
- Five Minutes
- Germantown
- Ghost
- Guadalupe
- Hello Cruel World
- I Aint Ever Satisfied
- I Dont Know
- I Was Looking For You
- I Wonder As I Wander
- Idlewild
- If Heaven
- If I Had A Gun
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Independence Day
- Jubilee
- Lilies Of The Field
- Love And Texaco
- Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea
- Northern Lights
- On A Bus To St Cloud
- On A Bus To Stcloud
- Over Africa
- Paradise Found
- Picasso And Me
- Prairie In The Sky
- Pretty Things
- Revival
- Saint Francis
- Song For A Winters Night
- Souvenirs
- Sunday Morning Up And Down My Street
- The Aviators Song
- The House On Auburn Street
- The Matador
- The Way You Move Me
- This Town
- This Used To Be My Town
- To Say Goodbye
- Tomorrow Morning
- Truckstop Angel
- Waitin On Mary
- Waiting For Amelia
- Waiting For The Light
- Waiting For The Light To Turn Green
- When All You Got Is A Hammer
- When You Are Old
- When You Comin Home
- Wild Horses
- Woman On The Wheel
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Song: Woman on the wheel
Artist: Gretchen Peters
Composer: Gretchen Peters
Albums: Hello cruel world /The essential Gretchen Peters
Tabbed by: DJ
30th May 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_NFRr9VtUY
CAPO: 4th fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of B)
Gretchen plays the G as a G/B = x20033 and the bass guitar and piano add
the root G, but for a single guitar it's better to play the full G chord.
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
G = 320033 D5 = xx0235 Bm = x24432
D = xx0232 D4 = xx0233 A = x02220
Em7 = 022033 Dsus2 = xx0230
Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks
===========================================================================
[Intro]
G D G D
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 1]
G D
There's a man out here puts his head in the mouth of a crocodile,
G D
Puts the whole thing in, takes it out, and gives the crowd a great big smile,
Em7 D
And they walk away with their illusions of safety safely intact,
Em7 D
And they tell their little wide eyed kids, "It's only an act!"
[Verse 2]
G D
There's a man out here throws knives at a wheel, with a blindfold on,
G D
And the wheel spins round, and the knives bear down till they find their home,
Em7 D
And I can feel the rush, and the whoosh, of every blade of steel,
Em7 D
'Cause I am the woman on the wheel-----!
[Verse 3]
G D
Some - times I get lonely, sometimes I get scared, but most times bored,
G D
Some - times I ask God, "Please, God, just show me what's be - hind that door!",
Em7 D
As if God was Monty Hall and this was 'Let's make a deal',
Em7 D
And I am the woman on the wheel-------!
[Break]
G D D4 D Dsus2 D
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo,oo - oo, hoo!
G D D4 D Dsus2 D
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo,oo - oo, hoo!
[Verse 4]
G D
Had a sweet little baby in Coeur D'Alene, he was an acrobat,
G D
Took me out on the wire, man, I never knew love could feel like that,
Em7 D
But, in the end, he was a man who couldn't keep his feet on the ground too long,
Em7 D
In the end it's just another highwire act gone wrong!
[Verse 5]
G D
So it's on with the show, and it's send in the clowns, and the trapeze act,
G D
And it's more of the same, and it's less of a game than a cold... hard... fact,
Em7 D
Most times, it's better not to ask myself how I feel,
Em7 D
Oh, ...I'm just the woman on the wheel------!
[Break]
G D D4 D Dsus2 D
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo, oo - oo, hoo,
G Bm A
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo, oo - oo, hoo!
[Instrumental Verse]
G D G D
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Em7 D Em7 D
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 6]
G D
Now I know what you're thinking, as the knives fly by, and they find their mark,
G D
You're thinking, one false move, and it's a real bad day at the a - musement park,
Em7 D
You wouldn't wanna be me, but you need me just the same------,
Em7 D
To re - mind you what you stand to lose, and what you stand to gain!
[Verse 7]
G D
They say I've got a death wish, yeah, but I don't think that's true,
G D
As far as I can see, it's less about me, and more about you,
Em7 D
You see, it ain't your fears, so much as what your fears re - veal,
Em7 D D4 D Dsus2 D
I'm just the woman on the wheel-----!
[Coda]
G D D4 D Dsus2 D
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo, oo - oo, hoo,
G D D4 D Dsus2 D
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo, oo - oo, hoo,
G D D4 D Dsus2 D
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo, oo - oo, hoo,
G D
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo, oo - oo, hoo!
D D4 D Dsus2 D D D5 D4 D Dsus2 D
| / / / / | / / /__/ / | / / /__/ / | / ||
Artist: Gretchen Peters
Composer: Gretchen Peters
Albums: Hello cruel world /The essential Gretchen Peters
Tabbed by: DJ
30th May 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_NFRr9VtUY
CAPO: 4th fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of B)
Gretchen plays the G as a G/B = x20033 and the bass guitar and piano add
the root G, but for a single guitar it's better to play the full G chord.
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
G = 320033 D5 = xx0235 Bm = x24432
D = xx0232 D4 = xx0233 A = x02220
Em7 = 022033 Dsus2 = xx0230
Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks
===========================================================================
[Intro]
G D G D
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 1]
G D
There's a man out here puts his head in the mouth of a crocodile,
G D
Puts the whole thing in, takes it out, and gives the crowd a great big smile,
Em7 D
And they walk away with their illusions of safety safely intact,
Em7 D
And they tell their little wide eyed kids, "It's only an act!"
[Verse 2]
G D
There's a man out here throws knives at a wheel, with a blindfold on,
G D
And the wheel spins round, and the knives bear down till they find their home,
Em7 D
And I can feel the rush, and the whoosh, of every blade of steel,
Em7 D
'Cause I am the woman on the wheel-----!
[Verse 3]
G D
Some - times I get lonely, sometimes I get scared, but most times bored,
G D
Some - times I ask God, "Please, God, just show me what's be - hind that door!",
Em7 D
As if God was Monty Hall and this was 'Let's make a deal',
Em7 D
And I am the woman on the wheel-------!
[Break]
G D D4 D Dsus2 D
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo,oo - oo, hoo!
G D D4 D Dsus2 D
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo,oo - oo, hoo!
[Verse 4]
G D
Had a sweet little baby in Coeur D'Alene, he was an acrobat,
G D
Took me out on the wire, man, I never knew love could feel like that,
Em7 D
But, in the end, he was a man who couldn't keep his feet on the ground too long,
Em7 D
In the end it's just another highwire act gone wrong!
[Verse 5]
G D
So it's on with the show, and it's send in the clowns, and the trapeze act,
G D
And it's more of the same, and it's less of a game than a cold... hard... fact,
Em7 D
Most times, it's better not to ask myself how I feel,
Em7 D
Oh, ...I'm just the woman on the wheel------!
[Break]
G D D4 D Dsus2 D
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo, oo - oo, hoo,
G Bm A
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo, oo - oo, hoo!
[Instrumental Verse]
G D G D
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Em7 D Em7 D
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 6]
G D
Now I know what you're thinking, as the knives fly by, and they find their mark,
G D
You're thinking, one false move, and it's a real bad day at the a - musement park,
Em7 D
You wouldn't wanna be me, but you need me just the same------,
Em7 D
To re - mind you what you stand to lose, and what you stand to gain!
[Verse 7]
G D
They say I've got a death wish, yeah, but I don't think that's true,
G D
As far as I can see, it's less about me, and more about you,
Em7 D
You see, it ain't your fears, so much as what your fears re - veal,
Em7 D D4 D Dsus2 D
I'm just the woman on the wheel-----!
[Coda]
G D D4 D Dsus2 D
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo, oo - oo, hoo,
G D D4 D Dsus2 D
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo, oo - oo, hoo,
G D D4 D Dsus2 D
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo, oo - oo, hoo,
G D
Woo--oo, hoo------- oo - oo, oo - oo, hoo!
D D4 D Dsus2 D D D5 D4 D Dsus2 D
| / / / / | / / /__/ / | / / /__/ / | / ||
Grey Eye Glances
Grey Haze
Grey Holiday
Grey Kingdom
Grey Revell
Gridlock
Grieves
Griff Parrish
Griffin Oskar
Griffon Shadow