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Housemartins — Build (ver 2) Chords

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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
   Ebm  /     Dm
   Bbm  /     Am
   B    /     Bb
   C#   /     C

Intro
F# / Ebm / Bbm / B  (x 2)

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

F# / Ebm / Bbm / 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#                 Ebm
It's build (a house where we can stay)
             Bbm                      B
Ba—ba—ba—ba—Build (add a new bit everyday)
             F#                           Ebm
Ba—ba—ba—ba—Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
             Bbm                               B
Ba—ba—ba—ba—Build (build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots)
        
Ba—ba—ba—ba—Build 

F# / Ebm / Bbm / B

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

F# / Ebm / Bbm / 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#                 Ebm
It's build (a house where we can stay)
             Bbm                      B
Ba—ba—ba—ba—Build (add a new bit everyday)
             F#                           Ebm
Ba—ba—ba—ba—Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
             Bbm                               B
Ba—ba—ba—ba—Build (build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots)
        
Ba—ba—ba—ba—Build 

F# / Ebm / Bbm / 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#                 Ebm
It's build (a house where we can stay)
             Bbm                      B
Ba—ba—ba—ba—Build (add a new bit everyday)
             F#                           Ebm
Ba—ba—ba—ba—Build (it's Build, a road for us to cross)
             Bbm                               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# / Ebm / Bbm / B (fade out)