Judy Collins – In The Heat Of The Summer (Guitar)

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In the heat of the summer

C                       E
When the pavements were burning

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The soul of a city was ravaged in the night

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After the city sun was setting

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Now no one knows how it started

C                    E
why the windows were shattered

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But deep in the dark, someone set the spark

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And then it no longer mattered

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Down the streets they were rumbling

C                    E
All the tempers were raging

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Oh, where, oh, where are the white silver tongues

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Who forgot to listen to the warnings?

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On and on come the angry

C                   E
No longer following reason

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And all the stores were the target now

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Where just the other day they were buying

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Drunk with the memory of the ghetto

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Drunk with the lure of the looting

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And the memory of the uniforms shoving with their sticks

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Asking, "Are you looking for trouble?"

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"No, no, no," moaned the mayor

C                    E
"It's not the way of the order

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"Oh stay in your homes, please leave us alone

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"We'll be glad to talk in the morning"

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"For shame, for shame," wrote the papers

C                      E
"Why the hurry to your hunger?

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"Now the rubble's resting on your broken streets

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"So you see what your rage has unravelled"

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Barricades sadly were rising

C                   E
Bricks were heavily flying

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And the loudspeaker drowned like a whispering sound

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when compared to the angered emotions

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And when the fury was over

C                               E
And the shame was replacing the anger

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So wrong, so wrong, but we've been down so long

              G             Am
And we had to make somebody listen

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In the heat of the summer