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Before The Deluge Lyrics And Chords

Jackson Browne. Christy Moore [ song list ] had a hit in Ireland with this one , and a song I have received a lot of requests for. I have included the guitar chords in the keys of G and D Major.

(G)Some of them were dreamers, (C) and some of them were fools(G) 
who were(Em)making plans and (C)thinking of the future(G),,,,[C],,[G]
With the energy of the innocent, they were (C)gathering their tools(G) they would (em)need to make thir (C)journey back to (G) nature(C),,,, (G) 
While the (Em) sand slipped through the (G)opening, and their (C)hands reached for the (G) glden ring, with their (Em) hearts they turned to each (G) other's hears for (D) refuge, (C) (G) (D) in the (Em) troubled years that (C)came before the (G) deluge (C),,,, (G) 

Chorus: 

(G) Now let the music keep your (G) spirits high....(C),, (G) (C) and 
let the buildings keep our (G)children dry (C),,, (G) Let creation reveal 
(D)it's secrets, by and by (G),, (C) by and by (G),,, 
(C) when the (G) light that's lost with (C) in us reaches the sky 
(G),,,, (D) 


Some of them knew pleasure, and some of them knew pain, 
and for some of them it was only the moment that mattered. 
With the brave and crazy wings of youth, 
they went flying around in the rain 
and their feathers once so fine, grew torn and tattered 
And in the end they traded their tired wings, 
for the resignation that living brings, 
and exchanged love's bright and fragile glow 
for the glitter and the rouge, and in a moment they were swept 
before the deluge 

Some of them were angry at the way the earth was abused 
by the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power 
And they struggled to protect her from them 
Only to be confused, by the magnitude of her fury 
In the final hour 
And when the sand was gone and the time arrived 
In the naked dawn only a few survived 
and in attemps to understand a thing so simple and so huge 
believed that they were meant to live 
after the deluge 
Here's the chords in the key of D.

(D)Some of them were dreamers, (G) and some of them were fools(D) 
who were(Bm)making plans and (G)thinking of the future(D),,,,[C],,[G]
With the energy of the innocent, they were (G)gathering their tools(D) they would (em)need to make thir (G)journey back to (D) nature(G),,,, (D) 
While the (Bm) sand slipped through the (D)opening, and their (G)hands reached for the (D) glden ring, with their (Bm) hearts they turned to each (D) other's hears for (A) refuge, (G) (D) (A) in the (Bm) troubled years that (G)came before the (D) deluge (G),,,, (D) 

Chorus: 

(D) Now let the music keep your (D) spirits high....(G),, (D) (G) and 
let the buildings keep our (D)children dry (G),,, (D) Let creation reveal 
(A)it's secrets, by and by (D),, (G) by and by (D),,, 
(G) when the (D) light that's lost with (G) in us reaches the sky 
(D),,,, (A) 
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