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Before the Flood
R. DAWSON & S. FINK

Come on baby, won't you come back home

Angel eyes won't leave me alone

Come on baby, won't you come back home

You know you've been gone way too long

The battered bayou here in the rain

Sometimes feelings are hard to explain

The battered bayou here in the rain

Look at you, you know you feel the same

Remember those days before the flood

Think I met you when you were thirty-one

Tried so hard to get to you

Yeah I know baby you were thirty-two

You know they heard about it on the news

We were in the dark, so confused

You know they heard about it on the news

Love you more than ever and that's the truth

Just when we thought that we reached the end

Trees bending in a hurricane wind

Just when we thought that we reached the end

Picked up the pieces, now we're on the mend

Remember those days before the flood

Think I was born in '61

Pick up a fiddle, I'll strike you a chord

Sing you a song that you wanna hear more

Remember those days before the flood

Think I met you when you were thirty-one

Tried so hard to get to you

Yeah I know baby you were thirty-two

Remember those days before the flood

Think I was born in '61

Pick up a fiddle, I'll strike you a chord

Sing you a song that you wanna hear more

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Harmonica: Howard Levy
Instruments and vocals: Steven Fink

G7   Dm7  (alternate; slow groove)


 

G7        Dm7            G7        Dm7

Come on baby, wontcha come back home

 

C        Gm        C        Gm

Angel eyes won’t leave me alone

 

Eb            C        Eb                F

Come back baby, wontcha come back home

 

G7        Dm7            G7        Dm7

You know you’ve been gone way too  lon


 

G7        Dm7            G7        Dm7

The battered bayou here in the rain

 

C        Gm        C        Gm

Sometimes feelings are hard to explain

 

Eb            C        Eb                F

The battered bayou here in the rain

 

G7        Dm7            G7        Dm7

Look at you, you know you feel the same


 

C                            Gm

Remember those days before the flood

 

F                            Eb

Think I met you when you were thirty-one

 

C                  Gm

Try so hard to get to you

 

Eb                        F

Yeah I know baby you were thirty-two


 

G7        Dm7            G7        Dm7

You know they heard about it on the news

 

C        Gm        C        Gm

They were in the dark; so confused

 

Eb            C        Eb                F

You know they heard about it on the news

 

G7        Dm7            G7        Dm7

I love you more than ever and that’s the truth


 

G7        Dm7            G7        Dm7

Just when we thought that we reached the end

 

C        Gm        C        Gm

Trees bending in a hurricane wind

 

Eb            C        Eb                F

Just when we thought that we reached the end

 

G7        Dm7            G7        Dm7

Picked up the pieces, now we’re on the mend



 

C                            Gm

Remember those days before the flood

 

F                Eb

Think I was born in sixty-one

 

C                  Gm

Pick up a fiddle, I’ll strike you a chord

 

Eb                        F

Sing you a song that you wanna hear more



 

C                            Gm

Remember those days before the flood

 

F                            Eb

Think I met you when you were thirty-one

 

C                  Gm

Try so hard to get to you

 

Eb                          F

Yeah I know baby you were thirty-two

 

C                            Gm

Remember those days before the flood

 

F                Eb

Think I was born in sixty-one

 

C                  Gm

Pick up a fiddle, I’ll strike you a chord

 

Eb                      F

Sing you a song that you wanna hear more

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