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Here Comes The Flood by Peter Gabriel - Guitar Chords

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Version 1

            Put the capo on 2nd fret and go from there.  If you want to simplify the chord 
diagram, just use the base chords shown (without /extensions, which I think sounds good too).


[Intro]

C7sus4  Cm7  Eb/Bb  Ab  (x4)


[Verse 1]

Cm             Bb6        Ab 
When the night shows and signals grow on radios 
Cm              Bb6          Ab 
All the strange things that come and go as early warnings 
Bb                 Gm7    Ab
Stranded starfish have no place to hide 
      Ab        F/A   Bb       G/B   Cm 
Still waiting  for the swollen Easter tide 
       Cm7/Bb                   F/A  Fm/Ab Ab              Eb 
Theres no point in direction, we cannot even  choose a side 


[Verse 2]

Cm             Bb6         Ab 
I took the old track, the hollow shoulder, across the water, 
Cm                Bb6          Ab 
On the tall cliffs, they were getting older, sons and daughters, 
Bb              Gm7      Ab
The jaded underworld was riding high, 
    Ab         F/A       Bb     G/B    Cm 
And waves of steel hurled metal at the sky, 
    Cm7/Bb                             F/A    Fm/Ab    Ab         Eb 
And as the nails sunk in the cloud, The rain was warm and soaked the crowd


[Chorus]

Eb         Bb/D             Cm 
Lord, here comes the flood 
Bb            G/B                Cm 
We'll say goodbye,  to flesh and blood 
    G/B                        Cm 
If again the seas are silent in any still alive 
G/B     G/A     G         G/F  Ab 
It'll be those who gave their island to survive 
      Abm Bbm B        Db          Eb 
Drink up,   dreamers,  you're running dry 


[Verse 3]

Cm             Bb6         Ab 
When the flood calls, you have no home, you have no walls, 
Cm                Bb6          Ab 
In the thundercrash, you're a thousand minds within a flash, 
Bb                  Gm7    Ab
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see, 
    Ab       F/A         Bb    G/B    Cm 
The actor's gone, there's only you and me, 
    Cm7/Bb                              F/A  Fm/Ab   Ab     Eb 
And if we break before the dawn, they'll use up what we used to be


[Chorus]

Eb         Bb/D             Cm 
Lord, here comes the flood 
Bb            G/B               Cm 
We'll say goodbye, to flesh and blood 
   G/B                         Cm 
If again the seas are silent in any still alive 
G/C     Ab/Bb      Ab         Ab/Gb  A 
It'll be those who gave their island to survive 
      Abm Bbm B        Db          Eb 
Drink up,   dreamers,  you're running dry 
        

We also have 15 songs by Peter Gabriel

• Big Time
• Biko
• Come Talk To Me
• Digging In The Dirt
• Dont Give Up
• Games Without Frontiers
• Here Comes The Flood
• In Your Eyes
• Mercy Street
• Red Rain
• Shock The Monkey
• Sledgehammer
• Solsbury Hill
• The Book Of Love
• Washing Of The Water

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