Fortress Around Your Heart - Sting 
from the album "Dream of the Blue Turtles"
Transcription: Ken Nakahara 

 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)