Chords for Jackson Browne - Before The Deluge

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_ Some of them were dreamers, _
[C] _ some of them [G] were fools, _
[Em] who were making plans [C] and thinking of the future.
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With the energy of the innocent, _ [C] they were gathering the [G] tools _
they [Em] would need to make [C] their journey back [G] to nature. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] While the sand slipped through [G] the opening, _ [C] and their hands reached for the [G] golden ring, _
[Em] with their hearts they turned [C] to each other's _ [G] heart for [D] it. _ _ _ _ _
[Em] Of the troubled _ [C] years that came _ [G] before the debut, _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ some of them were pleasure _ [C] and _ some of them [G] were easy, _
[Em] and for some of them [C] it was only a moment [G] that mattered.
_ And _ _ of the brave and crazy weasel geese, they [C] went flying around in the [G] rain, _
[Em] their feathers were so [C] fine, glued, [G] torn, and tattered. _ _ _ _
Yet [Em] in the end they traded [G] their tired ways _ [C] for the _ resignation [G] that they grieved.
[Em] And exchange loves bright [C] and fragile for [G] the glitter of the rose, _ _
[Em] and in a moment they were [C] as well, _ before [G] the debut.
_ _ Now let the music keep our spirits high, [C] _ let _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ the buildings keep our children dry,
[C] _ let _ [G] _ _ creation reveal [D] its secrets [G] by and by, _ _ [C] _ _ _
[G] by and by,
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when [G] the light that's lost [C] within us [G] reaches the sky.
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_ _ Some of them were angry [C] at the way the earth [G] was abused, _
by the [Em] men who learned how to [C] forge [G] her beauty into power, _ _ _ _ _
and they struggled to protect her from them, _ [C] only to be [G] confused, _
[Em] by the magnitude of [C] her fury in the final [G] hour. _ _ _ _ _
[Em] The sand was gone [G] when the time arrived, _ [C] in the naked dawn only [G] a few survived,
[Em] and in an attempt to [C] understand the fact, so [D] simple and so huge, _
believe [Em] that they were meant to live [C] _ _
[G] after the dead _ here.
Now let the music keep our spirits [C] high, _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] let the [G] buildings keep our children [C] dry, _ _
_ [G] _ let creation reveal [D] its secrets [G] by and by, _ [C] _ _ _
[G] by and by,
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[G] when the light that's lost [C] within us [G] reaches the sky.
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Now let the music [G] keep our spirits high, _
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[C] let the buildings [G] keep our children [C] dry,
_ _ _ [G] _ let creation [D] reveal its secrets by [G] and by, _ _
[C] _ _ [G] by and by, _ _
_ _ _ when the light that's lost [C] within us reaches the sky.
When the [G] light that's lost within us, [C] by [G] and by,
when the light that's [C] lost within us, reaches [G] the sky. _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] By and by. _
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