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In The Heat Of The Summer by Judy Collins
In The Heat Of The Summer
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:1st fret
{Intro]
Am G Am G Am G Am G Am
[Verse 1]
G Am
In the heat of the summer
C E
When the pavements were burning
Am G E Am
The soul of a city was ravaged in the night
G Am G Am G Am
After the city sun was setting
[Verse 2]
G Am
Now no one knows how it started
C E
why the windows were shattered
Am G E Am
But deep in the dark, someone set the spark
G Am G Am G Am
And then it no longer mattered
[Verse 3]
G Am
Down the streets they were rumbling
C E
All the tempers were raging
Am G E Am
Oh, where, oh, where are the white silver tongues
G Am G Am G Am
Who forgot to listen to the warnings?
[Verse 4]
G Am
On and on come the angry
C E
No longer following reason
Am G E Am
And all the stores were the target now
G Am G Am G Am
Where just the other day they were buying
[Verse 5]
G Am
Drunk with the memory of the ghetto
C E
Drunk with the lure of the looting
Am G E Am
And the memory of the uniforms shoving with their sticks
G Am G Am G Am
Asking, "Are you looking for trouble?"
[Verse 6]
G Am
"No, no, no," moaned the mayor
C E
"It's not the way of the order
Am G E Am
"Oh stay in your homes, please leave us alone
G Am G Am G Am
"We'll be glad to talk in the morning"
[Verse 7]
G Am
"For shame, for shame," wrote the papers
C E
"Why the hurry to your hunger?
Am G E Am
"Now the rubble's resting on your broken streets
G Am G Am G Am
"So you see what your rage has unravelled"
[Verse 8]
G Am
Barricades sadly were rising
C E
Bricks were heavily flying
Am G E Am
And the loudspeaker drowned like a whispering sound
G Am G Am G Am
when compared to the angered emotions
[Verse 9]
G Am
And when the fury was over
C E
And the shame was replacing the anger
Am G E Am
So wrong, so wrong, but we've been down so long
G Am
And we had to make somebody listen
G Am G Am G Am
In the heat of the summer
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