Flood Water Chords by Eric Bibb

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_ _ Flood water _ _ _ spreading all around, _ _ _
_ _ [F] [G] flood water [F] _ _
_ _ [Dm] spreading all around, _ _
_ _ [Am] people everywhere _ [C] trying
_ to make [Dm] higher ground. _ _
_ _ Many met their maker _ in a watery grave, _ _
_ _ [F] many [G] met their maker [Dm] _
in a watery grave. _
_ [F] If your [Em] neighbor had a boat, _ _ [C] well you might have [G] been saved, [A] _
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might have [Dm] been saved.
_ _ _ Bibles floating in the water, _ _ had to leave it all behind, _ _ _ Bibles floating [G] in the water,
[F] _ [A] _ had to [Dm] leave it all behind. _ _ _ _
[F] Sister [A] had a [Em] vision, _ _ _ [C]
church paid her [Dm] no mind, _ [A] _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ [Am] paid her no [F]
mind.
_ [Dm] _ People straddling their rooftops, _ _ water reaching to their knees, _ _ _ people straddling [G] their _ [F] rooftops,
_ [A] water [Dm] reaching to their knees.
_ _ Heard the [Em] preacher holler, Lord, Lord, [C] Lord, have mercy [Dm] if you please.
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_ _ _ _ [G] _ Don't you know [B] it rained?
_ [Dm] _ _ No where were you?
_ _ _ _ Don't you know it [F] rained?
_ _ [G] _ [Dm] No where were you? _ _ _ _
Cows [Em] couldn't swim, _ _ _ [C] drowning two by [Dm] two. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [F] _ _
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_ _ [G] Flood water, [Dm] _ _
far as my eyes could see, _ _
_ _ [F] flood water, _ [C] _
[Dm] far as my eyes could see. _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ 1927, _ _
_ [C] never leave my [Dm] memory, _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [C] never leave my [Dm] memory. _ _ _ _ _ _
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