Biography:
The Housemartins was a British indie-pop/alternative rock band which formed in 1983 in Kingston upon Hull, England. After breaking up in 1988, band members Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway formed The Beautiful South, while bassist Norman Cook found success as an electronic dance music DJ and music producer founding the groups Beats International, Pizzaman and Freak Power, before rebranding himself as Fatboy Slim.
At its formation the band consisted of Paul Heaton (vocals), Stan Cullimore (guitar), Ted Key (bass) and Chris Lang (drums).
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- Happy Hour
- Me And The Farmer
- Anxious
- Bow Down
- Build
- Caravan Of Love
- Five Get Over Excited
- Flag Day
- Freedom
- Get Up Off Our Knees
- Hopelessly Devoted To Them
- I Smell Winter
- Ill Be Your Shelter Just Like A Shelter
- Johannesburg
- Over There
- Reverends Revenge
- Sheep
- Sitting On A Fence
- Step Outside
- The Light Is Always Green
- The Mighty Ship
- The People Who Grinned
- The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death
- There Is Always Something There To Remind Me
- Think For A Minute
- Were Not Deep
- Youve Got A Friend
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Song: Build
Artist: The Housemartins
Album: The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death (1987)
Tabbed By: Alex Blackburne
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
F# / F
D#m / Dm
A#m / Am
B / Bb
C# / C
Intro
F# / D#m / A#m / B (x2)
Verse
F# D#m A#m
Clambering men in big bad boots
B F#
Dug up my den, dug up my roots
D#m A#m
Treated us like plasticine town
B
They built us up and knocked us down
F# / D#m / A#m / B
Pre-Chorus
C# B
From meccano to legoland
C# B
Here they come with a brick in their hand
C# B
Men with heads filled up with sand
C#
It's build
Chorus
F# D#m
It's build (a house where we can stay)
A#m B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (add a new bit everyday)
F# D#m
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
A#m B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots)
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build
F# / D#m / A#m / B
Verse
F# D#m A#m
Whistling men in yellow vans
B F#
They came and drew us diagrams
D#m A#m
Showed us how it all worked it out
B
And wrote it down in case of doubt
F# / D#m / A#m / B
Pre-Chorus
C# B
Slow, slow, quick, quick, quick
C# B
Its wall to wall and brick to brick
C# B
They work so fast it makes you sick
C#
Its build
Chorus
F# D#m
It's build (a house where we can stay)
A#m B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (add a new bit everyday)
F# D#m
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
A#m B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots)
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build
F# / D#m / A#m / B (x4)
It's Build (repeated)
Pre-Chorus
C# B
Down with sticks and up with bricks
C# B
In with boots and up with roots
C# B
Its in with suits and new recruits
C#
Its build
Chorus
F# D#m
It's build (a house where we can stay)
A#m B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (add a new bit everyday)
F# D#m
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
A#m B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots)
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build
(Repeat Chorus)
F# / D#m / A#m / B (fade out)
Artist: The Housemartins
Album: The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death (1987)
Tabbed By: Alex Blackburne
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
F# / F
D#m / Dm
A#m / Am
B / Bb
C# / C
Intro
F# / D#m / A#m / B (x2)
Verse
F# D#m A#m
Clambering men in big bad boots
B F#
Dug up my den, dug up my roots
D#m A#m
Treated us like plasticine town
B
They built us up and knocked us down
F# / D#m / A#m / B
Pre-Chorus
C# B
From meccano to legoland
C# B
Here they come with a brick in their hand
C# B
Men with heads filled up with sand
C#
It's build
Chorus
F# D#m
It's build (a house where we can stay)
A#m B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (add a new bit everyday)
F# D#m
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
A#m B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots)
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build
F# / D#m / A#m / B
Verse
F# D#m A#m
Whistling men in yellow vans
B F#
They came and drew us diagrams
D#m A#m
Showed us how it all worked it out
B
And wrote it down in case of doubt
F# / D#m / A#m / B
Pre-Chorus
C# B
Slow, slow, quick, quick, quick
C# B
Its wall to wall and brick to brick
C# B
They work so fast it makes you sick
C#
Its build
Chorus
F# D#m
It's build (a house where we can stay)
A#m B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (add a new bit everyday)
F# D#m
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
A#m B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots)
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build
F# / D#m / A#m / B (x4)
It's Build (repeated)
Pre-Chorus
C# B
Down with sticks and up with bricks
C# B
In with boots and up with roots
C# B
Its in with suits and new recruits
C#
Its build
Chorus
F# D#m
It's build (a house where we can stay)
A#m B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (add a new bit everyday)
F# D#m
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
A#m B
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build (build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots)
Ba-ba-ba-ba-Build
(Repeat Chorus)
F# / D#m / A#m / B (fade out)
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