In the Heat of the Summer chords by 
Phil Ochs 
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Key: C# minor•
Verse 1
C#m
B
C#m
B
C#m
In the
B
C#m
heat of the summer
F a
E
G#
When the pavements were burning
F#
Dm c dm
B
The soul of a city was
G#
C#m
ravaged in the night
Gm dm
B
C#m
After the city sun was sinkin'
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C#m
Verse 2
B
C#m
Dm gm d m
B
C#m
Now no one knows how it started
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F a
E
G#
Why the windows were shattered
Dm c dm
F#
B
But deep in the dark,
G#
C#m
someone set the spark
Gm dm
B
C#m
B
C#m
B
And then it no longer mattered.
C#m
Dm gm dm Down the
Verse 3
B
C#m
streets they were rumbling
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F a
E
G#
All the tempers were ragin
Dm c dm
F#
Oh, where, oh,
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G#
C#m
where are the white silver tongues
Gm dm
B
Who forgot to listen to the warn
C#m
B
C#m
B
ings?
C#m
Dm gm dm On and
Verse 4
B
C#m
on come the angry
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F a
E
G#
No longer following reason
F#
Dm c dm
B
G#
C#m
And all the stores were the target now
Gm dm
B
Where just the other day they
C#m
B
were buyin
C#m
Dm gm dm Drunk with the
Verse 5
B
C#m
memory of the ghetto
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F a
E
G#
Drunk with the lure of the looting
Dm c dm
F#
B
And the memory of the uniforms
G#
C#m
shoving with their sticks
Gm dm
B
C#m
B
Asking, are you looking for trouble?
C#m
Dm gm
Verse 6
B
dm
C#m
No, no, no, moaned the mayor.
B
F a
E
G#
It's not the way of the order.
F#
Dm c dm
B
Oh stay in your homes,
G#
C#m
please leave us alone
Gm dm
B
We'll be glad to talk in
C#m
B
C#m
the morn ing.
B
Dm gm dm For shame, for
Verse 7
C#m
shame, wrote the papers.
F#
F a
E
G#
Why the hurry to your hunger?
Dm c dm
F#
B
Now the rubble's resting
G#
C#m
on your broken streets
Gm dm
B
So you see what your rage has
C#m
B
C#m
unraveled.
Verse 8
B
Dm g m dm
C#m
Baricades sadly were risin
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F a
E
G#
Bricks were heavily flyin
Dm c dm
F#
B
And the loudspeaker drowned
G#
C#m
like a whisperin' sound
Gm dm
B
When compared to the angered
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B
C#m
B
emo tions
C#m
Dm g m dm And when the
Verse 9
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C#m
fury was over
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F a
E
And the shame was replacing
G#
the anger.
Dm c dm
F#
B
So wrong, so wrong,
G#
C#m
but we've been down so long
Gm dm
B
And we had to make somebody
C#m
B
listen
C#m
Gm dm gm dm gm dm
B
C#m
In the heat of the sum mer......
C#m
B
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC#m B E G# F#
C#m
B
E
G#
F#
Capo: 4
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