Building A Wall

Intro
| N.C. |

Verse
| Abm | % | Emaj7 | % |
| Abm | % | Emaj7 | % |

Bridge
| G | % | D | % |
       Protection, detection
            (Protection, detection)
        G
There's nowhere to defect to any more
  | Em | % |
Protection, detection
      (Protection, detection)
        F#m                      F#
There's nowhere to defect to any more

Chorus
G                A
  I'm building a wall
Bm       C
  A fine wall
F              Em
Not so much to keep you out
F#m
More to keep me in
G                A
  I'm building a wall
Bm       C
  A fine wall
F              Em
Not so much to keep you out
F#m
More to keep me in

Verse
Abm
Back then on a bomb-site
        Emaj7
We were spies among the ruins
Abm
Such precocious barbarians
Emaj7
On TV we saw ...

Bridge
     | G | % |
Cold War
  | D | % |
Protection, detection
      (Protection, detection)
        G
There's nowhere to defect to any more
  | Em | % |
Protection, detection
      (Protection, detection)
        F#m                      F#
There's nowhere to defect to any more

Chorus
G                 A
  I'm leaving the world
Bm         C
  It's all wrong
F                Em
Not so much what men are doing
F#m
Much more what they're not
G                A
  I'm building a wall
Bm       C
  A fine wall
F              Em
Not so much to keep you out
F#m
More to keep me in

Middle 8
G
Jesus and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
A
Caesar conquered Gaul
G
Scouting for centurions
A          Bm
On a Roman wall
| G | % |
"Through the woods, the trees and further on the sea
| A | % |
We lived in the shadow of the war
| G | % |
Sand in the sandwiches, wasps in the tea
        | A |
It was a free country"
               | F# |
"Who d'you think you are? Captain Britain?"

Chorus
(variation)
Bm
  I'm building a wall
Bm
  A fine wall
F              Em
Not so much to keep you out
F#m
More to keep me in
G               A
  I'm losing my head
Bm          C
  Well, why not?
F                 Em
More work for the undertaker
F#m
Means there's less for me

Chorus
G                A
  I'm building a wall
              (I'm building a wall)
Bm       C
  A fine wall
             (A fine wall)
F              Em
Not so much to keep you out
F#m
More to keep me in
G                A
  I'm building a wall
              (I'm building a wall)
Bm       C
  A fine wall
             (A fine wall)
F              Em
Not so much to keep you out
F#m
More to keep me in

(repeat and fade)