Fortress Around Your Heart Tab

by Sting
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Difficulty: intermediate
Capo: no capo
Author bobhunt [a] 41. Last edit on Feb 13, 2014
Play riff 1 four times as intro.
 
Verse:
 
 e-10-10-8----8-|     one per line (riff 1)
 B-10-10-8-10-8-|
 G--7--7-8-10-7-|
 D---------10---|
 A--------------|
 E--------------| 
 
 Under the ruins of a walled city
 Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light
 No flags of truce, no cries of pity
 The siege guns have been pounding all through the night
 
 e-9-9-8---8-|     one per line (riff 2)
 B-9-9-8-9-8-|
 G-8-8-8-8-8-|
 D-------8---|
 A-----------|
 E-----------| 
 
 It took a day to build the city
 We walked through the streets in the afternoon
 
 e-8-8-6---8-|     one per line (riff 3)
 B-8-8-6-8-8-|
 G-5-5-6-8-5-|
 D-------8---|
 A-----------|
 E-----------| 
 
 As I returned across the fields I'd known
 I recognized the walls that I once made
 I had to stop in my tracks for fear
 
    B7      B7sus  B7        B7sus
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid
 
 
 	Chorus:
 
	     Em   D           G    C       D      C    D
	 And if I built this fortress around your heart
 
 	      Em  D      G        C          D   C  D
 	Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
 
  	     Em     D       G       C     D	    C	      D
 	Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm
 
 	     Eb    F       Eb    F         G
 	And let me set the battlements on fire
 
 	Intro riff 2 times
 
 
 Verse:
 
 Play riff #1 on these two lines
 
 Then I went off to fight some battle
 That I'd invented inside my head
 
 
 Play riff #2 on these two lines
 
 Away so long for years and years
 You probably thought or even wished that I was dead
 
 
 Play riff #3 for these three lines
 
 While the armies all are sleeping
 Beneath the tattered flag we made
 I had to stop in my tracks for fear
 
    B7      B7sus  B7         B7sus
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid
 
 	Repeat Chorus
 
 Verse:
 
 Play riff #1 on these two lines
 
 This prison has now become your home
 A sentence you seem prepared to pay
 
 Play riff #2 on these two lines
 
 It took a day to build the city
 We walked through it's streets this afternoon
 
 Play riff #3 on these three lines
 
 As I returned across the lands I'd known
 I recognized the fields where I'd once played
 I had to stop in my tracks fear
 
    B7      B7sus  B7         B7sus
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid
 
 	Repeat Chorus
 
 Go back to intro riff.
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Fortress Around Your Heart – Sting
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jefmeeks1
Third chord 887 to my ear...same with the others...but liking this version to sing and play that riff (I'm no expert).
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