Chords for Arlo Guthrie/ In Times Like These

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_ [G] You know, a few years ago, [F] actually the first time I made some money, [C] a long time ago, which was also the last time I made any [D] money.
An old postcard station just south of here, [G] moving down to Sebastian. _ _ _
One of these never-ending [D#] projects.
[C] My wife and I have been working on it for 20 years or more.
[F#] _ And [F] we just about, three or four years ago, we just about finished the thing after working on it.
[G] She had actually just put on the tile [N] roof, and I wasn't even around.
I was on the road somewhere.
She sent me pictures of it.
And at the time I was in a fight with the Army Corps of Engineers, who's out in the local Indian River water management something or other.
So I couldn't get any insurance on the building, and so [F] I was just sitting there and I was on the road.
And that's when Mother Nature sort of flipped down and [F#] said,
Let's get our oil.
[N] _ And they sent those two hurricanes directly to my house.
_ _ So when the Katrina thing started [F] happening, I was interested.
I was interested as a bystander.
But I knew what some of these folks was in for, you know.
Not just in the immediate moment of things, but in how long it would take if ever things got rebuilt, you know.
I finally got a permit to rebuild our place about a week ago, so we started doing [N] that.
_ _ _ _ _ _ The new feature of the modern disaster is that you could have millions of people glued to the TV like I was when the Katrina thing started happening.
I was sitting there day after day after [G] day, and I wouldn't believe it.
And they said it was getting big, it was getting bad.
It might go to New Orleans, something like that.
Sure enough, it gets there, you know.
And it's big, it's bad, just like what they were saying.
And that's just the natural part of the [C] disaster.
Then comes the man-made part that goes on for days, weeks, months.
Still going on in some ways.
But there's only so [D#] much disaster you can watch [Em] on a freaking TV.
Well, that'd be flipping the channel, you know.
There'd be somebody selling jewelry or something.
[C#] That was comforting.
_ _ [G] Seems like some things go on and nothing else is happening.
You drive me nuts.
[C] Hey, maybe it's supposed to be that way, I don't know.
[B] At any rate, I thought it'd be worth a [N] song.
_ [D] You're great. _
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[D] _ _ Between [A] commercials, they're [D] taking names.
Singers run, [E] but where the cash is, it's just [A] another lake.
It's laying free [D] as a chain.
I see the [A] storm clouds rise above me.
The sky is [A] dark and the [D] night is gone.
I walk alone _ along this highway where strangers [A] gather [D] one by one.
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_ [D] _ One liter's traffic, [Em] _
repeat divisions.
When the [A] tears of friends _ [D] remain unsung.
It dies like [Em] peace.
It's [D] good to remember these times of [A] gold.
It [D] dies to come.
I see the [A] storm clouds rise above me.
The [A] sky is dark and the [D] night is gone.
I walk alone [Em] _
along this [D] highway where friends have [A] gathered [D] one by one.
I know the storm [G] will [D] soon be over.
The [A] howling winds will [D] cease to be.
I walk with friends [Em] from [D] every nation on [B] freedom's highway in times like these.
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