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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