Chords for Chuck Pyle ~ Here Comes the Water ~ MAMA concert May 2009

_ [Am] _ _ [A] This is for my sound man John who's doing such a great job.
Thanks, John
[Am] requested this one
In 1976 Colorado had a big blowout flood it wasn't caused from a dam breaking it was caused from a [A] downpour
Of a storm that stalled over the never summer
the [Am] mummy range
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Patrolman was told to seek higher ground.
It was in the middle of this canyon with this wall of water coming down
Instead he turned his car and raced the wall of water down the canyon saved
[Am] Who knows how many people's lives with his bullhorn going?
_ His radio was on his last few moments of his life [A] headquarters and back then in 76
Literally thousands of people in Colorado had their CB radios
And they probably had him on because all the power was out
_ _ [Am] they heard
[A] sergeant Purdy's last words _ _ _ _ _
This is the sergeant Hugh James Purdy _ _ _
Colorado [A] Highway State Patrol Greeley precinct wherever he may be
_ Just about sundown the wind got strange
[E] _ _ [D] _ [A] Coming off the prairie just like the tide
[E] _ _ [A] _ [E] Spilling down in every summer rain
_ _ [D] _ [E] Old man wind
nighttime
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fireballs [A] on telephone wires
[E] _ _ [D] _ Heat lightning all [A] over the park
[E] _ _ [A] _ Somewhere in the distance.
They said there was a fire
[E] _ _ [D] _ The rains begin [A] and then it got dark
[E] There _ [A] _ was three [E] feet of water running the streets
_ _ [D] _ [E] Pick it up speed
picking up power
_ _ [A] _ And there [E] were the two rivers meeting
_ _ [D] _ [E] They say it hit 50 miles [A] an hour
_ [E] _ _ [A] No, we're for the water [E] to go now, but down
_ Down down down the water did go
_ [A] _ And everyone in this just part can all around
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Listening [G] heard him on the radio
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But [G] Chauvin Purdy number [A] 213
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Racing the [A] canyon like a dash
[D] _ _ [A] _
[E] Warning everybody [A] there by the stream
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[A] Turns in time to see this man
[D] _ [A] He says 1033
And _ [E] by _ [A] now every radio can hear [Em] he _
[A] said the [G] mutters up to [A] my _ _
[D] And then [A] just a trace [E] of fear [A] he said here _ [Am] comes water _ _
_ _ 213 what's your 1020 over? _ _ _
_ _ [Am] 213 do you copy come back?
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_ Plural [Am] channels we have a mayday maybe what is your [A] 20 over? _ _
Mayday do you copy come back?
[Am] _ [A] Mayday, what is your 20 over? _
_ Mayday, [Am] are you there come back mayday?
[A] _ Mayday, do you copy over?
_ [Am] Mayday, do you read?
_ Mayday, do you read? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [Am] _ Mayday do you copy? _
[A] _ Mayday, do you [Am] copy?
_ _ Mayday, do you copy?
Do you read over? _ _ _ _ _
[B] 213 what's your 1020 over?
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