Tablature fortress around your heart - Sting

          



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  From: ab218@freenet.toronto.on.ca (Jordi-Ken Nakahara)

  

  

                  Fortress Around Your Heart  STING

                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  from the album:

                                              Dream of the Blue Turtles

                               

   This is my second posting so my explanations may not be all that good.

   Nevertheless, I hope you will enjoy playing this great Sting classic.

   

  

  

   Intro:

  

   Riff #1

   

   e-10-10-10-8-8-5-5-8-8-     play this a total of 4 times.

   B----------------------     

   G----------------------

   D---------------------- 

   A----------------------

   E----------------------

  

  

   Part A: play riff #1 throughout the section below.

  

   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

  

    

   Riff #2

  

   E-9-9-9-8-8-6-6-8-8-       play this a total of 2 times     

   B-------------------

   G-------------------

   D-------------------

   A-------------------

   E-------------------

  

  

   Part B: play riff #2 throughout the section below. 

  

   It took a day to build the city

   We walked through the streets in the afternoon

  

  

   Riff #3:

  

   E-9-9-9-7-7-4-4-7-7-        play this a total of 4 times.

   B-------------------

   G-------------------

   D-------------------

   A-------------------

   E-------------------

  

  

   Part C: play riff #3 throughout the section below.

  

   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  

   Of walking on the mines I'd laid

  

  

   Chorus:

  

      Dm          C           Am            C 

   And if I built this fortress around your heart

  

      Dm       C      Am              C

   Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire

  

      Dm       C       Am             C       

   Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm 

  

      Dm     c     Am         c  

   And let me set the battlements on fire 

  

  

   Part D: play riff #1 throughout the section below.

   

   Then I went off to fight some battle

   That I'd invented inside my head

   

  

   Part E: play riff #2 throughout the section below.

  

   Away so long for years and years

   You probably thought or even wished that I was dead

   

  

   Part F: play riff #3 throughout the section below.

  

   While the armies all are sleeping

   Beneath the tattered flag we made

   I had to stop in my tracks for fear

   Of walking on the mines I'd laid

  

   Repeat Chorus

  

   Part G: play riff #1 throughout the section below.

   

   This prison has now become your home

   A sentence you seem prepared to pay

   

   Part H: play riff #2 throughout the section below.

  

   It took a day to build the city

   We walked through it's streets this afternoon

  

   Part I: play riff #3 throughout the section below.

  

   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

   Of walking on the mines I'd laid

  

   Repeat Chorus

  

  

   Go back to intro riff.

  

  

   Whew! That was harder to explain than I thought. Your comments or 

   corrections would be greatly appreciated.

                                      

   

                          Akira Nakahara (using my brother's account)

  

  

   P.S. Also I'd like to get my hands on any tablature for Sting,

          Van Halen, and the Rolling Stones,

   

                                              Thanks. 

          

  

  --

  Ken Nakahara	

  ab218@torfree.net

  Toronto, Canada

  

   


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 Fortress around your heart, de Sting 

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