Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin - "Southern Flood Blues" Chords

This will do a song from the previous album from last year the Big Bill
Bernsie record and this is a song that's appropriate in many places this is a
song about a flood
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_ _ Water was coming [Am] in my door, _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ early one morning, water was coming [A] in my door _
_ _ _ _ It was [E] the Ohio [F] River [F#] coming to get ready, coming to get [Am] ready to go
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it was dark and it was raining, _ you could hear them howling wind _ _ _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ [D] Dark and it was raining, you could hear [A] them howling wind _ _ _ _ _
If [E] I get away this time [F#] Lord, I will never come back, back [G] here [A] again
_ [E] _ _ _ _ My baby was crying, we didn't have a thing to eat
Water had come and washed everything out
Head down the street [D] early, early one morning, _ water was [Am] coming in my door
_ It _ [A] _ [Em] was the Ohio [F#] River coming to get ready, coming to get [D] ready to [Am] go
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_ _ _ _ [Am] was hollering for mercy, _ [A] but there were no boats around _ _
_ _ _ Lord I [D] was hollering for mercy, but there were [Am] no boats around _ _
_ _ _ [Em] Well if I stay here much longer people, [F#] I believe I'm gonna, I believe [Am] I'm gonna drown
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I'm gonna drown, _ _ _ _ I'm [C] gonna drown
_ Well _ _ _ _ _ _ then my house started shaking, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ floating on down the [D] street
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_ _ _ _ Well in the dark at midnight you'd hear people hollering and screaming
[D] Head down the street early, early one morning, water was coming [E] in my door
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_ [E] _ [A] _ It [Em] was the Ohio River [D] coming to get ready, coming to get [Am] ready to go
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Thank you all for coming. _ _ _ _ _
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