Chords for Shelter From The Storm- Andy Hill & Renee Safier

[E] It was in another lifetime, [A] _ [E] one of toil and blood, _
_ _ when blackness was a virtue [A] and the road was full of mud.
[E] _ I came in from the wilderness, [A]
a creature [E] void of form.
Come in, she [B] said, I'll give you [A] shelter from [E] the storm.
_ _ And if I pass this way again, _ [A] [E] you can rest assured, _
I'll always do my best for her, [A] on that I give my word.
In [E] a world of steel-eyed death and men, [A] all fighting to be born.
_ [E] Come in, she said, I'll give you shelter [A] _ from [B] the [E] storm. _ _
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[E] _ [A] _ [E] _ _ _ Suddenly I turned around and she was standing there
with silver [B] bracelets on her [A] wrists, flowers in her hair.
[E] She walked up to [B] me so gracefully [A] and she took my crown of thorns.
[E] Come in, she [B] said, I'll give you [A] shelter from [E] the storm.
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_ _ [E] I was burned out [B] from exhaustion, [A]
buried [E] in the hail.
Poison in the bushes, [A]
blowed out on the trail.
[E] Hunted [B] like [A] a crocodile, ravaged in the corn.
[E] Come in, she [B] said, I'll give you [E]
shelter from the storm.
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Now there's a wall [B] between [E] us, [A] something has been [E] lost.
I took too much for [B] granted, [A] got my signals crossed,
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just to think that it all began on [A] a non-eventful morning.
[E] Come in, she [B] said, I'll give you [A] shelter [E] from the storm.
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_ [A] _ _ _ [E] Now that that beauty [B] walks on hard [E] nails and the preacher rides a mouse,
nothing really matters much, [A] it's doom alone that counts.
[E] And I want to entertain her, [A] blow us a feudal horn.
[E] Come in, she said, I'll give you [A] shelter from [E] the storm.
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Come on, Bob, a little accordion.
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[E] In a little [B] hilltop village, [E] they gambled for my clothes.
I bargained for salvation, [A] she'd give me a lethal [E] dose.
I offered up [B] my innocence, [A] God repaid with scorn.
[E] Come in, she said, [B] I'll give you [E] shelter from the storm.
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_ [B] _ _ [A] _ Now [E] I'm a living in a [Abm] foreign country, [E] but I'm bound across the line. _
Beauty walks a razor's edge, [A] someday I'll make it mine.
[E] If I could only [B] turn back the clock [A] to when God and her were born.
[E] Come in, she [Abm] said, I'll give you [A] shelter from [E] the storm.
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_ [A] _ _ Shelter from [E] the storm.
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_ [A] I'll give you shelter from [E] the storm.
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[E] _ I'll give you shelter from the storm.
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_ [A] _ _ Shelter from [E] the storm.
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_ [A] I'll give you shelter from [E] the [B] storm.
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