Before The Deluge Chords by Joan Baez

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Some of them were _ _ [Eb] dreamers, some of them [Bb] were fools.
[Gm] They were making plans [Eb] and thinking of the [Bb]
future.
_ _ _ _ _ With the energy of the innocent, _ _ [Eb] they were _ gathering [Bb] the _ tools
[Gm] they would need to make [Eb] their journey [Bb] back to nature.
_ _ _ _ [Gm] While the sands slipped through [Bb] the opening,
_ [Eb] and their hands reached for the [Bb] golden ring,
[Gm] in their hearts they turned [Eb] to each other's [F] hearts for a cue.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Gm] In the troubled years [Eb] that came [Bb] before the _ _ dayloom, _ _ _ _
some of them knew pleasure, _ _ [Eb] _
some of them [Bb] knew _ pain,
[Gm] and for some of them [Eb] it was only the moment [Bb] that mattered.
_ _ _ _ _ On the brave and crazy wings of youth,
[Eb] they went flying around [Bb] in the _ rain,
[Gm] and their feathers, once so [Eb] _ fine, grew [Bb] torn and tattered.
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] In the end, they traded [Bb] their tired wings
[Eb] for the resignation [Bb] that living brings.
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Exchange loves [Eb] bright and fragile glow [F] for the glitter and the rouge.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ [Gm]
In a moment they were [Eb] sweat _ [Bb] before the daylooms.
_ _ Let the music keep our spirits _ [Eb] high.
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_ _ _ [Eb] _ Let the buildings [Bb] keep our children dry.
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Let creation [F] reveal her [G] secrets by [Bb] and by,
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_ when [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] the light that's [Eb] lost within us reaches [Bb] the sky.
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Some of them were angry _ [Eb] at the way the earth [Bb] was abused
_ [Gm] by the men who'd learned [Eb] how to forge her beauty [Bb] into power,
_ _ _ _ _ _ and they struggled to protect her from [Eb] them,
only to be [Bb] confused _ [Gm] by the magnitude of her [Eb] fury in the final [Bb]
hour.
_ _ _ _ And [Gm] when the sand was gone and the [Bb] time arrived,
[Eb] in the naked dawn only [Bb] a few survived,
_ [Gm]
in an attempt to [Eb] understand a thing [F] so simple and so [Eb] huge,
_ they [Gm] believed that they were meant to [Eb] live _ _ [Bb] after the _ _ _ daylooms.
Let the music keep our spirits [Eb] high.
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Let _ [Eb] _ the buildings [Bb] keep our children [Eb] dry.
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Let creation [F] reveal her secrets [Bb] by _ _ _ [Eb] and _ _ [Bb] _
by,
_ [Eb] _ _ when [Bb] the light that's [Eb] lost within us [Bb] reaches the sky.
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