Pet Shop Boys – Building A Wall (Guitar)

Capo 1
Key
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Chords

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Tennant/Lowe From: “Yes” (2009) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard Capo: 1st fret For chords in original key, transpose +1 (and “use flats”) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
CHORDS
          E-A-D-G-B-e
Abm       4-6-6-4-4-4
Emaj7     0-6-6-4-0-0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | N.C. | [Verse] | Abm | % | Emaj7 | % | | Abm | % | Emaj7 | % | [Bridge]
| G | % | D | % |
       Protection, detection
(Protection, detection)
        G
There's nowhere to defect to any more

  | Em | % |
Protection, detection
(Protection, detection)
        F#m                      F#
There's nowhere to defect to any more
[Chorus]
G                A
  I'm building a wall

Bm       C
  A fine wall

F              Em
Not so much to keep you out

F#m
More to keep me in

G                A
  I'm building a wall

Bm       C
  A fine wall

F              Em
Not so much to keep you out

F#m
More to keep me in
[Verse]
Abm
Back then on a bomb-site

        Emaj7
We were spies among the ruins

Abm
Such precocious barbarians

Emaj7
On TV we saw ...
[Bridge]
     | G | % |
Cold War

  | D | % |
Protection, detection
(Protection, detection)
        G
There's nowhere to defect to any more

  | Em | % |
Protection, detection
(Protection, detection)
        F#m                      F#
There's nowhere to defect to any more
[Chorus]
G                 A
  I'm leaving the world

Bm         C
  It's all wrong

F                Em
Not so much what men are doing

F#m
Much more what they're not

G                A
  I'm building a wall

Bm       C
  A fine wall

F              Em
Not so much to keep you out

F#m
More to keep me in
[Middle 8]
G
Jesus and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

A
Caesar conquered Gaul

G
Scouting for centurions

A          Bm
On a Roman wall

| G | % |
"Through the woods, the trees and further on the sea

| A | % |
We lived in the shadow of the war

| G | % |
Sand in the sandwiches, wasps in the tea

        | A |
It was a free country"

               | F# |
"Who d'you think you are? Captain Britain?"
[Chorus] (variation)
Bm
  I'm building a wall

Bm
  A fine wall

F              Em
Not so much to keep you out

F#m
More to keep me in

G               A
  I'm losing my head

Bm          C
  Well, why not?

F                 Em
More work for the undertaker

F#m
Means there's less for me
[Chorus]
G                A
  I'm building a wall
(I'm building a wall)
Bm       C
  A fine wall
(A fine wall)
F              Em
Not so much to keep you out

F#m
More to keep me in

G                A
  I'm building a wall
(I'm building a wall)
Bm       C
  A fine wall
(A fine wall)
F              Em
Not so much to keep you out

F#m
More to keep me in
(repeat and fade)