Before The Deluge

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[Verse 1]
G
Some of them were dreamers
C                     G
And some of them were fools
         Em               C       
Who were making plans and thinking
            G    C  G
 of the future
         G
With the energy of the innocent
          C             G
They were gathering the tools
           Em                
They would need to make their 
 C              G       C  G
journey back to nature
          Em                       
While the sand slipped through the 
G
opening
          C                    
And their hands reached for the 
 G
golden ring
           Em                   
With their hearts they turned to 
      C                  D      Em
each other's heart for refuge
 G D

       Em                  C  
In the troubled years that came 
             G      C  G
before the deluge


[Verse 2]
G
Some of them knew pleasure
    C                 G
And some of them knew pain
        Em                  C     
And for some of them it was only 
               G        C  G
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     
And their feathers, once so fine, 
              G         C  G
grew torn and tattered
           Em                   
And in the end they traded their 
 G
tired wings
        C                G
For the resignation that living 
brings
Continúa después del anuncio
     Em                        
And exchanged love's bright and 
 C
fragile glow
        D                          
For the glitter and the rouge
Em  G  D

           Em               C     
And in the moment they were swept 
           G     C G
before the deluge


[Chorus]
                           G       
Now let the music keep our spirits 
     C       G       C
high
And let the buildings keep our 
G             C
children dry
G                        D       
Let creation reveal it's secrets 
        G      C
by and by
       G           C
By and by...
         G                 C      
When the light that's lost within 
               G        D
us reaches the sky


[Verse 3]
G
Some of them were angry
       C                  G
At the way the earth was abused
       Em                     C   
By the men who learned how to 
                  G     C  G
forge her beauty into power
          G
And they struggled to protect her 
from them
C              G
Only to be confused
       Em                   C     
By the magnitude of her fury in 
          G    C  G
the final hour
             Em                    
And when the sand was gone and the 
G
time arrived
       C                 G
In the naked dawn only a few 
survived
       Em               C     
And in attempts to understand a 
           D                  Em   
thing so simple and so huge
G  D

              Em                
Believed that they were meant to 
     C           G     C  G
live after the deluge


[Chorus]
                           G       
Now let the music keep our spirits 
     C       G       C
high
And let the buildings keep our 
G             C
children dry
G                        D       
Let creation reveal it's secrets 
               G      C
by and by
       G           C
By and by...
         G                 C      
When the light that's lost within 
               G        D
us reaches the sky


[Coda]
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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            
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     G                 C
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E|-----------------|---3---------
B|-3-----3-----3-5-|-----5-------
G|-----4-----------|-------5---5-
D|---5-------5-----|-------------
A|-----------------|-3-------3---
E|-3-------3-------|-------------

E|5---|-7-----8-7-5-----|---3-------
B|----|-----8-------8-5-|-----5-----
G|--5-|---7-------------|-------5---
D|----|-5-------5-------|-----------
A|----|-----------------|-3-------3-
E|----|-----------------|-----------

--5---| 
------| 
5---5-| 
------| 
------| 
------| 

   G                 C            
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     G C/E                D/F#
     |   |   |   |     |   |   |   |
E|-7-----8-7-5-----|---3---------
B|-----8-------8-5-|-----5-------
G|---7-------------|-------5---5-
D|-5-------5-------|-------------
A|-----------------|-3-------3---
E|-----------------|-------------

E|5---|-7-----7-------7-|-5-----5---------| 
B|----|-----8-------8---|-----7---8---10--| 
G|--5-|---7-------7-----|---7-----9---11--| 
D|----|-5-------5-------|-----------------| 
A|----|-----------------|-5-------7---9---| 
E|----|-----------------|-----------------|