Fortress Around Your Heart

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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