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Intro: Em C B7 Em Verse 1: Em G Down in Luisiana there's a storm a comoing through B7 Em I have seen this storm before and my mama's seen it too Em G Clouds that keep all the world keep brewing on so you B7 Em Can make an extra dollar and be sombody's fool Am B7 So you go into the room where the hammer goes down C Em And you change the lines to suit your gain B7 Em and you sway the odds to make your name C G take your umbrella and you throw it away B7 Em bathe all your children in the poison rain.
Instrumental: C G B7 Em Verse 2: Em G Over there in Memphis that wind is blowing around B7 Em There watching and a warning for that thunderous sound Em G Tennessee has surely seen that lightning does abound B7 Em Cause they know the room and they felt the weight of that hammer going down Em C G They change the lines to suit your gain B7 Em and you sway the odds to make your name C G Take your umbrella and you throw it away B7 Em Bathe all your children in the poison rain C G B7 Em oooooohh ooh oooh ohhh ooohoohooh oooh Verse 3: Em G See the people rising in their streets and halls and homes B7 Em Marching through the vitriol soaked to the bone Em G with a Chorus and a burning flag we keep on keeping on B7 Em cause you can try to take their voices but you can never take our song C Em And you change the lines to suit your gain B7 Em and you sway the odds to make your name C G take your umbrella and you throw it away B7 Em bathe all your children in the poison rain Outro: C G B7 Em
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