When The Fire Comes Down chords by Hank Williams

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
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Verse 1:
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Way back in the days of Noah
      C                G
Water covered all this land
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Then the great rainbow of promise
        A7          D
Started up on life again
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And the Good Book tells of fires
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That will fill the earth some day
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Then the sinful will be screamin'
        D                 G
As this earth shall pass away

Chorus:
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When the fire  (When the fire)
                G
Comes down from Heaven  (Comes down from Heaven)
         C
This old world   (This old world)
           G
Will melt away  (Will melt away)
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Millions then  (Millions then)
             G
Will cry for mercy  (Will cry for mercy)
            G
But it will be  (But it will be)
    D       G
Too late to pray


Verse 2:
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Oh this world is at a tremble
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And it's rocking to and fro
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You can read it in the papers
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Hear it on the radio
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And the movies they are showing
          C               G
Towns and cities how they blaze
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But there's hotter fire a coming
      D                G
If we follow sin's highway


Chorus:
         G
When the fire  (When the fire)
                G
Comes down from Heaven  (Comes down from Heaven)
         C
This old world   (This old world)
           G
Will melt away  (Will melt away)
         G
Millions then  (Millions then)
             G
Will cry for mercy  (Will cry for mercy)
            G
But it will be  (But it will be)
    D       G
Too late to pray


Interlude:
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Verse 3:
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Texas City, Texas City
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oh how awful was her faith
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First she burned and then exploded
        A7           D
Now the story will relate
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Of the wine crop in Atlanta
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how she burned right to the ground
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Or the great fire of Chicago and
    D             G
The dead lay all around


Chorus:
             G
But when the fire  (When the fire)
                G
Comes down from Heaven  (Comes down from Heaven)
         C
This old world   (This old world)
           G
Will melt away  (Will melt away)
         G
Millions then  (Millions then)
             G
Will cry for mercy  (Will cry for mercy)
            G
But it will be  (But it will be)
    D       G
Too late to pray