Jackson Browne - Before The Deluge

      


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 nat ure    
          Em                       G       
While the sand slipped through the opening
          C                     G           
And their hands reached for the golden ring
           Em                         C                  D      Em 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    


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   D 
For the glitter and the rouge           
           Em               C                G     C G 
And in the moment they were swept before the deluge  


                           C            G       C       G 
Now let the music keep our spirits high                 
                               C             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      


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 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  


                           C            G   C        
Now let the music keep our spirits high             
G                              C              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       |

Repeat coda and fade

Transcribed by Gerard Koot (Amsterdam, Netherlands) � may 2007
email: gerardkoot@hotmail.com


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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-------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|



     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|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|