Fortress Around Your Heart - Sting

 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
as608@freenet.carleton.ca     or     ab218@torfree.net
Toronto, Ontario