Chords for Ellis Paul Hurricane Angel at The Guthrie Center

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_ _ [C] On the day [Am] the levee broke, _ [F] the water did _ rise.
[C] _ _ _ I sat in my living room, [Am] took one last toke, then I [C] watched it all drift [G] away.
_ [Am] Now my credit card's [C] ringing up _ 30%.
[Am] There's a man in India [F] wondering where the mini [C] went, but [G] I _ _ _ _ _ can't [F] hang.
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_ So I sat on my roof [Am] and Lake _ Pontchartrain, [C] singing woe to my chinny singing blithering.
_ A stranger came by, never caught his [A] name, he [F] said he's rowing to [C] the Rio [G] Grande.
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Air [C] Force won a [F] blue streak in [C] the sky, [Am] Mr.
President, [C] you can't afford to lie,
cause I [G] _ can't afford to [C] pay. _ _ _ _
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[Am] Angel, go on [F] liftin' my eyes [C] over Baton Rouge.
[G] _ _ _ Lift up your wings, let [Am] me hear your voice singing, can [F] you turn these black [G] skies to blue again?
Oh, [Am] I'm laying on [C] the floor of a trailer at night, [Am] with 16 [C] refugees [F] waiting on [C] daylight.
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I can't [C] pay. _ _ _ _
_ I caught a flatbed Ford [Am] up to Baton Rouge, with [F] four worn out souls and one [C] old corkscrew.
You can drown New Orleans, but [Am] you can't drown the blues, so [F] bartender, pull [G] away.
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Exxon's having [F] one hell of a year, [Am] three [C] bucks a gallon, [F] man, they're making it clear [G] that I _ _ [G] can't.
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Lord, Lord, [Am] Lord, [A] we [F] haven't spoken in many _ [C] days.
_ Got myself in trouble down in [Am] the 9th [A] Ward, I [F] thought I'd send a prayer [G] your way. _ _
_ [Am] On [C] my window sills a [F] stack of insurance bills, [Am] a man [C] in Delaware says I can't have the bills. _ _ _ _
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Hurricane [Am] Angel, [C] go on liftin' my eyes over Baton Rouge.
_ _ Lift up [G] your wings, [C] let me hear your voice singing, can [F] you turn these black [G] skies to blue again?
[Am] Oh, I'm laying on [C] the floor [F] of a trailer [C] at night, with [Am] 16 [C] refugees [F] waiting on [C] daylight.
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_ can't [C] _ pay. _ _
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_ [G] Somebody [F] should pay.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ On the day [Am] that the light grew, _ [F] the water did rise [C] and the flowers did chill.
I sat in my living room, [Am] took one last toll, and [C] I watched it all. _ _ _
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