Hank Williams – When The Fire Comes Down (Guitar)

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[Intro] G [Verse 1]
         G
Way back in the days of Noah

      C                G
Water covered all this land

         G
Then the great rainbow of promise

        A           D
Started up on life again

        G
And the Good Book tells of fires

          C                   G
That will fill the Earth some day

         G
Then the sinful will be screamin'

        D                 G
As this Earth shall pass away
[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
[Verse 2]
        G
Oh this world is at a tremble

         C              G
And it's rocking to and fro

        G
You can read it in the papers

        A          D
Hear it on the radio

        G
And the movies they are showing

          C               G
Towns and cities how they blaze

            G
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] G [Verse 3]
      G
Texas City, Texas City

       C             G
Oh how awful was her fate

          G
First she burned and then exploded

        A            D
Now the story will relate

       G
Of the Winecoff in Atlanta

        C                   G
How she burned right to the ground

       G
Or the great fire in Chicago

        D             G
And 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