Another Bag Of Bricks

(início)

"Another Bag of Bricks”
From the album Drunken Lullabies
Tabbed by Eric Bonkowski
Intro:

chorus riff

 D
T’was in the early evenin’
Near the presence of the moon
You told me you would meet me here
Well now is not too soon
  G
This dagger twisting in my back
      D
Tells me I never should
      G
Have trusted everything to fall
      F             A
From beggar to the fool
  D
I see your face like every race
A serpent with two arms
Devouring me while rains the sun
With dreams in foreign lands
     G
This cold and dark tormented hell
    D
Is all I’ll ever know
    G
So when you get to heaven
         F            A
May the devil be the judge
(with chorus riff)
With another bag of bricks
D
I scratch your name across these walls
And with my blood turns red
Then drips upon my killing floor
Where now I call my bed
     G
No precious light to harbor
       D
Like so many here before
     G
And every drop of life you shed
     F                   A
Now breathes a thousand more
(with chorus riff)
With another bag of bricks
 A
Temper filled with blindness
Leads this lost and lonely man
Dragged around your whipping tree
A scourge you can’t command
  D
So deafen me with silence
Drown me with your roar
Scowl me with your hollow eyes
Still burnin’ to the core
    G
No door will go unanswered
        D
Like so many closed before
    G
No vagabond to knock upon
     D
This tired and beatin’ war
      G
When all return to exile
 D
Free from all once bound
  G
Decline and brawl old parasites
     F                 A
The truth will yet be found
(with chorus riff)
With another bag of bricks
instrumental interlude:
 quickly:
D D D D | D D D D | D D D G G
D D D D | D D D D | D D D G G
*Then D over the accordion solo*
   N.C.
This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I’ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge
A
Temper filled with blindness
Leads this lost and lonely man
Dragged around your whipping tree
A scourge you can’t command
  D
So deafen me with silence
Drown me with your roar
Scowl me with your hollow eyes
Still burnin’ to the core
    G
No door will go unanswered
        D
Like so many closed before
    G
No vagabond to knock upon
     D
This tired and beatin’ war
      G
When all return to exile
 D
Free from all once bound
  G
Decline and brawl old parasites
     F                 A
The truth will yet be found
(with chorus riff x3)
With another bag of bricks
instrumental outro:
 quickly:
D D D D | D D D D | D D D G G
D D D D | D D D D | D D D G G
NOTE:
The F to A move at the end of each verse sounds
much better when A is played barred, rather than
in the open position.  Also the reoccurring D may
sound better as a D5, though it is definitely not
a Dm.
and sometimes at the end of certain verse lines,
the violin/accordion slide this little bit in:

And for any mandolin or violin players,
those few riffs look like this:

    and

Have fun.  Email questions/corrections to
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