Another Bag Of Bricks Tab

“Another Bag of Bricks”
By Flogging Molly
 
From the album Drunken Lullabies
Tabbed by Eric Bonkowski
 
Intro:
 
e|-------2-2h3p2-------2-3-2-3-5-3-2h3p2---------|
B|--3-4----------4-3-4--------------------3-4~---|
G|-----------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------|
 
chorus riff
 
      D                             G
e|------------2-3-5-3-2---------2-3-5--|
B|----3-3-3-3-----------3-3-3-3--------|
G|-------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------|
     D                         C   D
e|-----------2-3-5-3-2-----------------|
B|---3-3-3-3-----------3-3-3-3-1-1-3---|
G|-------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------|
 
 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:
 
e|-----2-3-2h3p2--------------|
B|---------------4-3----------|
G|----------------------------|
D|----------------------------|
A|----------------------------|
E|----------------------------|
 
And for any mandolin or violin players,
those few riffs look like this:
 
e|----------2-3-5-3-2----------2-3-5---------2-3-5-3-2----------------|
A|--5-5-5-5-----------5-5-5-5--------5-5-5-5-----------5-5-5-5-3-3-5--|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
    and
 
e|--2-3-2h3p2-----------|
A|-------------6-5------|
D|----------------------|
G|----------------------|
 
 
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