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Before The Deluge by Jackson Browne - Guitar Chords
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Version 1
Before the Deluge – Jackson Browne live at No Nukes with David Lindley
[Intro]
(play 2 times)
|G |C |G |C |
|G |C |G |D |
[Verse 1]
G
Some of them were dreamers
C G
And some of them were fools
Em C G C G
Who were making plans and thinking of the future
G
With the energy of the innocent
C G
They were gathering the tools
Em C G C G
They would need to make their journey back to nature
Em G
While the sand slipped through the opening
C G
And their hands reached for the golden ring
Em C D Em G D
With their hearts they turned to each other's heart for refuge
Em C G C G
In the troubled years that came before the deluge
[Verse 2]
G
Some of them knew pleasure
C G
And some of them knew pain
Em C G C G
And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered
G
And on the brave and crazy wings of youth
C G
They went flying around in the rain
Em C G C G
And their feathers, once so fine, grew torn and tattered
Em G
And in the end they traded their tired wings
C G
For the resignation that living brings
Em C
And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow
D Em G D
For the glitter and the rouge
Em C G C G
And in the moment they were swept before the deluge
[Chorus]
G C G C
Now let the music keep our spirits high
G C
And let the buildings keep our children dry
G D G C
Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by
G C
By and by...
G C G D
When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky
[Verse 3]
G
Some of them were angry
C G
At the way the earth was abused
Em C G C G
By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power
G
And they struggled to protect her from them
C G
Only to be confused
Em C G C G
By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour
Em G
And when the sand was gone and the time arrived
C G
In the naked dawn only a few survived
Em C D Em G D
And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge
Em C G C G
Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge
[Chorus]
G C G C
Now let the music keep our spirits high
G C
And let the buildings keep our children dry
G D G C
Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by
G C
By and by...
G C G D
When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky
[Coda]
|G |C |G |C |
|G |C |G |D |
|G |C |G |C |
|G |C |G |D |
|G |Am |Bm |C |
|G |C |G |D |
|G
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I’ve added a sample fingerstyle arrangement of the intro. The intro is not played like
the original recording but it’s a way of playing
the intro violin melody combined with chords.
The vertical lines (|) above the high e string indicate the quarter note beats of the measures.
Tuning: EADGBe
Intro:
G C G C
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
e|-----------------|---3---------5---|-7-----8-7-5-----|---3---------5---|
B|-3-----3-----3-5-|-----5-----------|-----8-------8-5-|-----5-----------|
G|-----4-----------|-------5---5---5-|---7-------------|-------5---5---5-|
D|---5-------5-----|-----------------|-5-------5-------|-----------------|
A|-----------------|-3-------3-------|-----------------|-3-------3-------|
E|-3-------3-------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
G C G C/E D/F#
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
e|-7-----8-7-5-----|---3---------5---|-7-----7-------7-|-5-----5---------|
B|-----8-------8-5-|-----5-----------|-----8-------8---|-----7---8---10--|
G|---7-------------|-------5---5---5-|---7-------7-----|---7-----9---11--|
D|-5-------5-------|-----------------|-5-------5-------|-----------------|
A|-----------------|-3-------3-------|-----------------|-5-------7---9---|
E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
We also have 32 songs by Jackson Browne
- A Little Soon To Say
- Before The Deluge
- Call It A Loan
- Cocaine
- Doctor My Eyes
- For A Dancer
- For Everyman
- Fountain Of Sorrow
- Here Come Those Tears Again
- Im Alive
- In The Shape Of A Heart
- Late For The Sky
- Lives In The Balance
- Love Needs A Heart
- Our Lady Of The Well
- Redneck Friend
- Rock Me On The Water
- Rosie
- Running On Empty
- Sky Blue And Black
- Somebodys Baby
- Something Fine
- Song For Adam
- Stay
- Take It Easy
- Tender Is The Night
- The Barricades Of Heaven
- The Load-Out
- The Pretender
- The Road
- These Days
- Your Bright Baby Blues
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