Home Sweet Home Chords
Home Sweet Home by Peter Gabriel is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Cm. It uses the chords Cm, Eb, F, Dm, Bb, Bb7, C, C#dim7, Gm, Ab, Bdim7 and Fsus4. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
N.C.
Cm Eb F
Cm Dm Eb F
verse 1
Bb Bb7
Met this girl called Josephine
C
And took her up on my machine
C#dim7
We had a little fun
Bb
And now we got a little one
Gm Bb
Had to get married
Gm F
Being chased out of town
Found ourselves a place to live
Eb
We put all our money down
Cm Bb Eb Bb Ab
Called it home sweet home, home sweet home
F Bb
Eleven floors up in a tower block, happy just to have a home
Bdim7 Cm Dm Eb Fsus4 F Cm Dm Eb Eb F
I've gone and changed the lock on our home
verse 2
Bb Bb7
Nothing really worked out right
C
Things got broke, they stayed that way
C#dim7
None of our friends came round at night
Bb
Little Sam got no place to play
Gm Bb
"We've got to get out of here, Bill," she said
Gm F
"I've been saying it all the while"
When I came home from work that night
Eb
She'd jumped out the window with our child
Cm Bb Eb Bb Ab
From our home sweet home, home sweet home
F Bb Bdim7
Just a place to take a rest, just a place to make a nest
Cm Dm Eb Fsus4 F Cm Dm Eb Eb F
We call it home
verse 3
Bb Bb7
When the insurance money came through
C
It seemed dirty, didn't know what to do
C#dim7
Took out the cash, went down to the casino
Bb
Down on the wheel on a double
Gm Bb Gm F
And I won, yes I won, like I never won before
Eb
Bought myself a country house with an antique carved oak door
Cm Bb Eb Bb Ab
It was home sweet home, home sweet home
F Bb Bdim7
Just a place to lay our head, think of all the things we said
Cm Dm Eb Fsus4 F Cm Dm Eb Eb F
About in our home sweet home