Chords for Jackson Browne - Before The Deluge ( + lyrics 1974)

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[G] _ [D] _ [G] _ Some of them were _ dreamers, [C] _ some of them [G] were fools, _ who [Em] were making _ [C] plans and thinking
of the [G] future.
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_ With the energy of the innocent, _ _ [C] they were _ gathering [G] the two who [Em] they would
need to make [C] their journey back [G] to nature.
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_ _ [Em] While the sand slipped through [G] the opening,
_ [C] and their hands reached for [G] the golden moon, [Em] with their hearts [G] they turned [C] to each other's
hearts [D] for refuge. _ _
[C] _ [G] _ [D] _ [Em] Through troubled years [C] that came before [G] the day knew, _ [C] _
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knew pleasure, _ _ [C] _ some of them [G] knew pain, _ [Em] and for some of them [C] it was only the moment [G] that
mattered.
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[G] _ _ And on the brave and crazy wings of youth, [C] they went flying around [G] in the rain,
[Em] and their feathers once so [C] fine grew torn and [G] tattered. _
[C] _ [G] _ _ Yet in [Em] the end they [G] traded their
tired weight for [C] the _ [G] resignation that living brings, and [Em] exchanged love's [C] bright and fragile
glow [D] for the glitter and the rooves.
[C] _ _ [G] _ [D] [Em] And in a moment they were [C] swept before [G] the deluge.
[C] _ [G] Now let the music keep our spirits high, [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ let the buildings [G] keep our children bright, [C] _ _ _ _ [G] let
creation [D] leave its [G] secrets by and by, _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] by and by, _ [C] _ _ _ [G] when the light that's [C] lost within us [Am] reaches
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ Some of them were angry _ [C] at the way the earth [G] was abused, _ [Em] by the men who [C] learned
how to forge her beauty [G] into power.
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ And they struggled to protect her from them, _ [C] only to be
[G] confused _ [Em] by the magnitude of [C] her faith.
In the final [G] hour, _ _
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] when the sand was gone and [G] the time
arrived, [C] in the naked dawn [G] only a few survived, _ [Em] and in an attempt to [C] understand a thing _ [D] so simple and
so huge, [C] _ [G] _ [D] [Em] believed that they were meant to [C] live _ _ [G] after the deluge.
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_ [C] children bright, _ [G] _ let creation [D] leave its secrets by [G] and by, [C] _ _ _ [G] by and by, [C] _ _ _ [G] when the [C] light that's lost
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