Building Up And Tearing England Down chords by The Dubliners

Tuning: Standard tuning

Difficulty: novice

SONG:  BUILDING UP AND TEARING ENGLAND DOWN
ARTIST: THE DUBLINERS
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
EMAIL: GUITARZAN7@HOTMAIL.COM



   BUILDING UP AND TEARING ENGLAND DOWN
        THE DUBLINERS


INTRO:
A

VERSE:
    A            D       E
Oh, I won a hero's name with McAlpine and Costain
   A          D      E    A
With Fitz Patrick, Murphy Ash and the Wimpy's gang

     A            D        E
I've been often on the road on me way to draw the dole
       A       D    E    A
When there's nothing left to do for Johnny Laing


BREAK:
    F#m              C#
And I used to think that God made the mixer, pick and hod
   F#m       C#       F#m
So a Paddy might no hell above the ground


VERSE:
LOW E STRING -2---4-
            A
       I've had ganger's big and tough
     D          E
Tell me tear that hole out rough

CHORUS:
       A        D   E    A
When you're building up and tearing England down



VERSE:
   A              D        E
In a tunnel under ground a young Limerick man was found
    A       D  E    A
He was built into the new Victoria line

     A               D         E
When the bonus gang had passed sticking from the concrete cast
     A        D   E   A
Was the face of little Charlie Joe Divine


BREAK:
    F#m            C#
And the ganger man McGurk said big Paddy hates the work
     F#m        C#        F#m
When the gas main blew and he flew off the ground


VERSE:
LOW E STRING -2---4-
            A
       Oh they swore he'd send down slack
         D       E
And I'll not be there until I'm back

CHORUS:
     A        D   E    A
Keep on building up and tearing England down




VERSE:
   A               D        E
I was on the shuttering dam on the day that Jack McCann
     A       D   E   A
Got the better of his stammer in a week

     A
He fell from the shuttering dam
     D          E
And that poor old stuttering man
    A     D   E     A
He was never ever more inclined to speak


BREAK:
   F#m             C#
And I saw old Balls McColl with a big fly over haul
 F#m      C#       F#m
Into a concrete mixer spinning round


VERSE:
LOW E STRING -2---4-
            A
      Though it wasn't his intent
     D       E
He got a fine head of cement

CHORUS:
       A        D   E    A
When he was building up and tearing England down




VERSE:
   A              D      E
I remember carrier Jack with his hod upon his back
     A         D    E    A
How he swore one day he'd set the world on fire

     A
Well his face they've never seen
      D       E
Since his shovel it cut clean
    A       D    E    A
To the middle of the big high tension wires


BREAK:
    F#m              C#
Oh the more like Robin Hood well he wrung trough Cricklewood
  F#m       C#      F#m
Or dance around the pubs in Camdon Town


VERSE:
LOW E STRING -2---4-
            A
        Oh but let no man proclaim
     D         E
Sure old Pad' could die in vain

CHORUS:
      A        D   E    A
When he's building up and tearing England down


INSTRUMENTAL:

A D A E
A D A E A
F#m D A E  A D A E A
F#m D A E  A D A E A
F#m D A E  A D A E A


VERSE:
     A
So come all you navvy's bold
     D         E
Do not think that English gold
     A       D   E     A
Is just waiting to be taken from each sod

    A               D     E
By the likes of you and me will never get an O.B.E
    A         D   E    A
Or a knighthood for good service to the hod


BRIDGE:
     F#m
It's the concrete master race
      C#
That would keep you in your place
   F#m      C#       F#m
And a ganger man to kick you to the ground


VERSE:
LOW E STRING -2---4-
           A
        If you ever try to take
     D        E
Part of what the bosses make

CHORUS:
       A        D   E    A
When you're building up and tearing England down