Lost In The Flood Cifras

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