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                Building a Wall – Pet Shop Boys
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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”)

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CHORDS
          E-A-
Abm       4-6-
Emaj7     0-6-

D-G-B-e
6-4-4-4
6-4-0-0

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[Intro]
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[Verse]
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[Bridge]
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       Protect

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ion, detection
            (Protection, detection)
        
There's nowher

e to defect to

 any more
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Protection, de

tection
      (Protection, detection)
           
There's nowher

              
e to defect to

     
 any more

[Chorus]
             
  I'm building

   
 a wall
       
  A fine wall
             
Not so much to

 
 keep you out

More to keep m

e in
             
  I'm building

   
 a wall
       
  A fine wall
             
Not so much to

 
 keep you out

More to keep m

e in

[Verse]

Back then on a

 bomb-site
        
We were spies 

among the ruin

s

Such precociou

s barbarians

On TV we saw .

..

[Bridge]
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Cold War
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Protection, de

tection
      (Protection, detection)
        
There's nowher

e to defect to

 any more
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Protection, de

tection
      (Protection, detection)
           
There's nowher

              
e to defect to

     
 any more

[Chorus]
             
  I'm leaving 

    
the world
         
  It's all wro

ng
             
Not so much wh

   
at men are doi

ng

Much more what

 they're not
             
  I'm building

   
 a wall
       
  A fine wall
             
Not so much to

 
 keep you out

More to keep m

e in

[Middle 8]

Jesus and The 

Man From U.N.C

.L.E.

Caesar conquer

ed Gaul

Scouting for c

enturions
          
On a Roman wal

l
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"Through the w

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on the sea
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We lived in th

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It was a free 

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"Who d'you thi

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nk you are? Ca

ptain Britain?

"

[Chorus]
(variation)

  I'm building

 a wall

  A fine wall
             
Not so much to

 
 keep you out

More to keep m

e in
             
  I'm losing m

  
y head
          
  Well, why no

t?
             
More work for 

    
the undertaker

Means there's 

less for me

[Chorus]
             
  I'm building

   
 a wall
              (I'm building a wall)
       
  A fine wall
             (A fine wall)
             
Not so much to

 
 keep you out

More to keep m

e in
             
  I'm building

   
 a wall
              (I'm building a wall)
       
  A fine wall
             (A fine wall)
             
Not so much to

 
 keep you out

More to keep m

e in

(repeat and fade)