Chords for Chuck Pyle "Here Comes the Water"

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[F] _ _ _ [A] _ In white man's history [Am] there never been more than nine feet of [A] water in the Big Thompson Canyon. _ _ _
_ This particular [Am] night it went to 33 feet
[A] Killed over a hundred and forty [E] people
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_ [Am] Wasn't caused by a dam breaking.
[A] It was actually caused by a storm that stalled
_ _ _ just [Am] east of the
_ _ [A] _ Never Summer Range
Part of the Mummy Range coming down [Am] out of Wyoming _
[A] _ _ 11 inches of rain
Fell in less than an hour
[Am] I _ _ [A] was on my way back from Fort Collins back to Boulder and I stopped
at [Am] a little truck stop called Johnson's [A] Corners about six miles _ out from Loveland and about a
mile [Am] and a half north of where the Big [A] Thompson
_ Roared underneath the I-25 corridor that night
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[E] And I sat beside these [A] two patrolmen
_ [A] And over and over again, they [Am] told the story of this [A] patrolman who'd been told to [F] seek higher ground
[A] _ Instead he turned his car and raced [Am] the water down the canyon.
[A] They think saving hundreds of people's lives
in constant [Am] contact with
_ _ [A] headquarters, of course lots of people in [E] 1976 had [A] CB radios with police [Am] band on them and people heard his last words
_ Not to mention the bullhorn blaring out the top of his car as he
Raced down [A] the canyon _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] So this is a Kenneth [A] Hugh Purdy Colorado Highway State Patrol [E] Greeley [A] precinct wherever he may be
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_ _ _ Just about sundown the wind got strange
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[A] Coming off the prairie like the tide
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_ _ _ _ Spilling down the Never Summer Range _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Old man wind on a [A] nighttime ride _
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fireballs on the telephone wires
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_ _ Heat lightning all [A] over the park
_ [E] _ _ _ _ Somewhere in the distance.
There's a fire
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_ _ [A] the rains begin
It gets dark
_ [E] _ _ [A] And there's three feet of water running down the street
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_ _ [D] _ _ Picking up [A] speed
picking up power
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_ There were the two rivers me _
[E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [E] They say it went 50 [A] miles an hour _ _ _ _
[A] No way for the water [G] to go now [A] but down
[E] _ _ _ _ _ down [Am] down the big time sitting [A] at the roll
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_ _ _ _ [A] Everyone asked us parking all around
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Listening heard Purdy on the radio
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_ [A] _ charming Purdy
[E] _ [A] number 213
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[A] Racing the canyon like a dash _ _
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ Warning [G]
everybody there [A] by the stream
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[A] _ Turned in time to see the splash _
_ _ _ _ _ then 33
_ My car won't move _ _
_ _ [D] _ [A] By now everyone can hear
_ [E] _ _ _ [A] Purdy says mud [G] is up to my [A] window [E]
and _ _ _ _ [A] _ then with just a trace fear
[E] _ he said
_ Here [Am] comes the water
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_ _ [E] _ 213 what's your [A] 1020 over? _
[Am] _ Clear all channels [A] we have a mayday mayday.
What is your 20 come back?
_ _ _ [Am] Mayday, what is your 1020?
Oh?
[A] _ _ [A] _ Mayday, do you copy come back?
_ _ [Am] _ _ [A] Mayday, do you read over?
_ _ _ _ _ Mayday, [Am] do you copy come back?
[A] _ _ _ _ Mayday, do you read over?
_ _ [Am] _ [A] Mayday come back
_ _ Mayday come back _
_ _ Mayday Come back _
_ _ _ _ Mayday Come back _ _ _ _ _ _
Mayday
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_ 213 what's your 1020 [E] over? _ _
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