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)