Fortress Around Your Heart
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Tablatura interativa
Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: GmCapotraste: Sem capotraste
Sting - Fortress around your heart (1985)
Based on YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePTpHFjYNdI
4/4
120 bpm
[Intro]
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
[Verse 1]
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
Under the ruins of a walled city
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
Crumbling towers and beams of yellow light
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
No flags of truce, no cries of pity
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
The siege guns have been pounding through the nights
Eb7 Ab/Eb Eb7 Ab/Eb
It took a day to build the city
Eb7 Ab/Eb Eb7 Ab/Eb
We walked through its streets in the afternoon
C#5/F# B5/F# F#m9 B5/F#
As I returned across the fields I'd known
C#5/F# B5/F# F#m9 B5/F#
I recognized the walls that I'd once made
C#5/F# B5/F# F#m9 B5/F#
Had to stop in my tracks for fear
B7 G#m/B B7 G#m/B
Of walking on the mines I'd laid
[Chorus]
Em D/F# G Am C C D D D C C C D D D C
And if I built this fortress around your heart
Em D/F# G Am C C D D D C C C D D D C
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Em D/F# G Am C C D D D C C C D D D C
Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm
Cm7 Dm7 Ebmaj7 Fadd2
And let me set the battlements on fire
[Interlude]
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
[Verse 2]
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
Then I went off to fight some battle
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
That I'd invented inside my head
Eb7 Ab/Eb Eb7 Ab/Eb
Away so long for years and years
Eb7 Ab/Eb Eb7 Ab/Eb
You probably thought or even wished that I was dead
C#5/F# B5/F# F#m9 B5/F#
While the armies all are sleeping
C#5/F# B5/F# F#m9 B5/F#
Beneath the tattered flag we'd made
C#5/F# B5/F# F#m9 B5/F#
I had to stop my tracks for fear
B7 G#m/B B7 G#m/B
Of walking on the mines I'd laid
[Chorus]
Em D/F# G Am C C D D D C C C D D D C
And if I built this fortress around your heart
Em D/F# G Am C C D D D C C C D D D C
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Em D/F# G Am C C D D D C C C D D D C
Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm
Cm7 Dm7 Ebmaj7 Fadd2
And let me set the battlements on fire
[Interlude]
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
[Verse 3]
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
This prison has now become your home
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
A sentence you seem prepared to pay
Eb7 Ab/Eb Eb7 Ab/Eb
It took a day to build the city
Eb7 Ab/Eb Eb7 Ab/Eb
We walked through its streets in the afternoon
C#5/F# B5/F# F#m9 B5/F#
As I returned across the lands I'd known
C#5/F# B5/F# F#m9 B5/F#
I recognized the fields where I'd once played
C#5/F# B5/F# F#m9 B5/F#
Had to stop in my tracks for fear
B7 G#m/B B7 G#m/B
Of walking on the mines I'd laid
[Chorus]
Em D/F# G Am C C D D D C C C D D D C
And if I built this fortress around your heart
Em D/F# G Am C C D D D C C C D D D C
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Em D/F# G Am C C D D D C C C D D D C
Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm
Cm7 Dm7 Ebmaj7 Fadd2
And let me set the battlements on fire
[Fading Outro]
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
D5/G C5/G Gm9 C5/G
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The first identified chord is E. You can transpose without leaving the page.
Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
Yes. The chord progression works on acoustic guitar, electric guitar and keyboard. Adapt the voicings to your instrument and level.