Poison Rain

Intro: 
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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: 
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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 
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oooooohh ooh oooh ohhh ooohoohooh oooh 
 

 
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: 
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