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by Housemartins


Song: Build
Artist: The Housemartins
Album: The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death (1987)

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
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Intro
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Verse
                      
Clambering men in big bad boots
                          
Dug up my den, dug up my roots
                                 
Treated us like plasticine town
                                
They built us up and knocked us down

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Pre-Chorus
                
From meccano to legoland
                     
Here they come with a brick in their hand
                     
Men with heads filled up with sand

It's build

Chorus
                        
It's build (a house where we can stay)
                                   
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (add a new bit everyday)
                                        
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
                                            
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots)
        
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build 

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Verse
                   
Whistling men in yellow vans
                        
They came and drew us diagrams
                           
Showed us how it all worked it out
                 
And wrote it down in case of doubt

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Pre-Chorus
                        
Slow, slow, quick, quick, quick
                    
Its wall to wall and brick to brick
                    
They work so fast it makes you sick

Its build

Chorus
                        
It's build (a house where we can stay)
                                   
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (add a new bit everyday)
                                        
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
                                            
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots)
        
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build 

 /  /  /   (x4)
It's Build (repeated)

Pre-Chorus
                   
Down with sticks and up with bricks
                 
In with boots and up with roots
                     
Its in with suits and new recruits

Its build

Chorus
                        
It's build (a house where we can stay)
                                   
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (add a new bit everyday)
                                        
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
                                            
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots)
        
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build 

(Repeat Chorus)

F# / Ebm / Bbm / B (fade out)