Chord/Tab song: 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|-------------------------------------|

T[D]?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
Th[G]is dagger twisting in my back
Tells [D]me I never should
Have t[G]rusted everything to fall
From b[F]eggar to the f[A]ool
I [D]see your face like every race

A serpent with two arms

Devouring me while rains the sun

With dreams in foreign lands
This [G]cold and dark tormented hell
Is a[D]ll I?ll ever know
So w[G]hen you get to heaven
May the d[F]evil be the j[A]udge

(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
No pr[G]ecious light to harbor
Like so[D] many here before
And e[G]very drop of life you shed
Now b[F]reathes a thousand m[A]ore

(with chorus riff)
With another bag of bricks

T[A]emper filled with blindness

Leads this lost and lonely man

Dragged around your whipping tree

A scourge you can?t command
So[D] deafen me with silence

Drown me with your roar

Scowl me with your hollow eyes

Still burnin? to the core
No d[G]oor will go unanswered
Like so [D]many closed before
No v[G]agabond to knock upon
This [D]tired and beatin? war
When a[G]ll return to exile
F[D]ree from all once bound
De[G]cline and brawl old parasites
The t[F]ruth will yet be f[A]ound

(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
So[D] deafen me with silence

Drown me with your roar

Scowl me with your hollow eyes

Still burnin? to the core
No d[G]oor will go unanswered
Like so [D]many closed before
No v[G]agabond to knock upon
This [D]tired and beatin? war
When a[G]ll return to exile
F[D]ree from all once bound
De[G]cline and brawl old parasites
The t[F]ruth will yet be f[A]ound

(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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