Lost In The Flood chords by Bruce Springsteen

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

Lost in the flood by Bruce Springsteen
D MajorD
   B minorBm
The ragamuffin gunner is returning home like a hungry runaway
  G+G
He walks through town all alone " He must be from the fort",
                B minorBm
he hears the high school girls say
  B minorBm
His countryside's burning with wolfman fairies dressed in drag for homicide
   B minorBm
They hit and run plead sanctuary,'neath a holy stone they hide
    B minorBm
They're breakin' beams and crosses with a spastic's reelin' perfection
B minorBm
Nuns run bald though Vatican halls, pregnant,pleadin' immaculate conception
  B minorBm
And everybody's wrecked on Main street from drinking unholy blood
E minorEm
Sticker smiles sweet as Gunner breathes deep, his ankles caked in mud
       D MajorD
And I said, " Hey gunner man, that's quicksand, that's quicksand, that ain't
D MajorD
mud. Have you thrown your senses to the war, or did you lose them in the
  D MajorD
flood?"
   B minorBm
That pure American brother, dull-eyed and empty-faced
B minorBm
Races Sundays in Jersey, in a Chevy stock super eight
       C majorC
He rides 'er low on the hip, on the side he's got "Bound for Glory"
  B minorBm
in red white and blue flash paint
  D MajorD
He leans on the hood telling racing stories, the kids call him Jimmy the
E minorEm
Saint
     C majorC
Well that blaze and noise boy, he's gunnin' that bitch loaded to blastin'
E minorEm
point. He rides headfirst into a hurricane and dissapears into a point
      C majorC
And there's nothin' left but some blood where the body fell,
     B minorBm
that is, nothin' left that you could sell
   E minorEm
Just junk all across the horizon, a real highwayman's farewell
       E minorEm
And I said, "Hey kid, you think that's oil? Man that ain't oil, that's blood
  C majorC
I wonder what he was thinking when he hit that storm, or was he just
 E minorEm
lost in the flood?"
    B minorBm
Eighth Avenue sailors in satin shirts whisper in the air
   B minorBm
Some storefront incarnation of Maria, she's puttin' on me the stare
   B minorBm
And Bronx's best apostle stands with his hand on his own hardware
 E minorEm
Everything stops, you hear five quick shots, the cops come up for air
      E minorEm
And now the whiz-bang gang from uptown, they're shootin' up the street
     C majorC
And that cat from the Bronx starts lettin' loose, but he gets blown right
    E minorEm
off his feet.
     B minorBm
And some kid comes blastin' round the corner, but a cop puts him right away
  D MajorD
He lays on the street holding his leg, screaming something is Spanish
    E minorEm
still breathin' when I walked away
          C majorC
And someone said, "Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street
      E minorEm
with such a beautiful thud"
  E minorEm
I wonder what the dude was sayin' or was he just lost in the flood?
 E minorEm
Hey man did you see that? Those poor cats are sure messed up
 D MajorD
I wonder what they were gettin' into, or were they all just lost
     E minorEm /(repeat to end)
in the flood?

(very cool tune for solo acoustic)

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