WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Hank Williams - When The Fire Comes Down Chords | Ver. 1
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Way back in the days of Noah
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Water covered all this land
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Then the great rainbow of promise
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Started up on life again
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And the Good Book tells of fires
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That will fill the earth some day
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Then the sinful will be screamin'
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As this earth shall pass away
[Chorus]
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When the fire (When the fire)
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Comes down from Heaven (Comes down from Heaven)
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This old world (This old world)
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Will melt away (Will melt away)
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Millions then (Millions then)
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Will cry for mercy (Will cry for mercy)
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But it will be (But it will be)
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Too late to pray
[Verse 2]
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Oh this world is at a tremble
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And it's rocking to and fro
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You can read it in the papers
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Hear it on the radio
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And the movies they are showing
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Towns and cities how they blaze
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But there's hotter fire a coming
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If we follow sin's highway
[Chorus]
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When the fire (When the fire)
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Comes down from Heaven (Comes down from Heaven)
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This old world (This old world)
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Will melt away (Will melt away)
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Millions then (Millions then)
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Will cry for mercy (Will cry for mercy)
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But it will be (But it will be)
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Too late to pray
[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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Texas City, Texas City
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oh how awful was her faith
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First she burned and then exploded
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Now the story will relate
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Of the wine crop in Atlanta
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how she burned right to the ground
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Or the great fire of Chicago and
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The dead lay all around
[Chorus]
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But when the fire (When the fire)
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Comes down from Heaven (Comes down from Heaven)
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This old world (This old world)
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Will melt away (Will melt away)
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Millions then (Millions then)
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Will cry for mercy (Will cry for mercy)
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But it will be (But it will be)
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Too late to pray