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Build by The Housemartins - Guitar Chords

Artist The Housemartins How to play the guitar chord Fsharp.jpg How to play the guitar chord F.jpg How to play the guitar chord Dm.jpg How to play the guitar chord Am.jpg How to play the guitar chord B.jpg How to play the guitar chord Bb.jpg How to play the guitar chord Csharp.jpg How to play the guitar chord C.jpg

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Version 1 
            Song: Build
Artist: The Housemartins
Album: The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death (1987)
Tabbed By: Alex Blackburne

You can either play this song with the chords I've used 
or you can use a capo on the first fret with the following chords:

No Capo / Capo on 1st
   F#   /     F
   D#m  /     Dm
   A#m  /     Am
   B    /     Bb
   C#   /     C

Intro
F# / D#m / A#m / B  (x2)

Verse
F#         D#m             A#m
Clambering men in big bad boots
     B                     F#
Dug up my den, dug up my roots
        D#m                 A#m
Treated us like plasticine town
       B
They built us up and knocked us down

F# / D#m / A#m / B

Pre-Chorus
C#                B
From meccano to legoland
C#                     B
Here they come with a brick in their hand
C#                     B
Men with heads filled up with sand
C#
It's build

Chorus
       F#                 D#m
It's build (a house where we can stay)
             A#m                      B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (add a new bit everyday)
             F#                           D#m
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
             A#m                               B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots)

Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build

F# / D#m / A#m / B

Verse
F#         D#m          A#m
Whistling men in yellow vans
      B                  F#
They came and drew us diagrams
          D#m                 A#m
Showed us how it all worked it out
     B
And wrote it down in case of doubt

F# / D#m / A#m / B

Pre-Chorus
C#            B
Slow, slow, quick, quick, quick
C#                    B
Its wall to wall and brick to brick
C#                    B
They work so fast it makes you sick
C#
Its build

Chorus
       F#                 D#m
It's build (a house where we can stay)
             A#m                      B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (add a new bit everyday)
             F#                           D#m
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
             A#m                               B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots)

Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build

F# / D#m / A#m / B  (x4)
It's Build (repeated)

Pre-Chorus
C#                   B
Down with sticks and up with bricks
C#                 B
In with boots and up with roots
C#                     B
Its in with suits and new recruits
C#
Its build

Chorus
       F#                 D#m
It's build (a house where we can stay)
             A#m                      B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (add a new bit everyday)
             F#                           D#m
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
             A#m                               B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots)
        
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build 

(Repeat Chorus)

F# / D#m / A#m / B (fade out)

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