The Flood chords by Show of Hands

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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The
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Downland is soaked after
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weeks of hard rain
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Streams were dry since the war,
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they're flowing again
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But the water's still rising,
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it's only a meter below
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The streets of the old county town,
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it's got nowhere to go
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And a river runs out of these hills
And the celery's starting
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to fa -a -ale
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The fields and the farmland
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lie under their blanket of mud
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It's soaking the roots and the branches,
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it's rotting the buds
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Around here everyone's counting
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the cost of the floods
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The cost of the floods
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Yet under the cruel sun,
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the desert drifts ever more south
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Like the spars of old ships,
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the cattle bones bleach in the drought
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When they're weary of praying for rain
All the young men are heading
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for Spain
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But the shoreline was just beyond reach
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And now someone lies drowned
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Where the lovers stretch out
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on the beaches that border the towns
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Round here everyone's
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watching the world
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Spinning around
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Round Round
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Round
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So let's stand on the white cliffs
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and look over to France
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Where hundreds are waiting for darkness
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to take one more chance
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As the trucks in the neon -lit parks
become cages instead of
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a night
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Our credit is worthless,
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the aid and investment's no good
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When they're paying their debts
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with their families,
our loan's backed with blood
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Now the dam has been breached,
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it's the year of the flood
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Flood
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Now come the flood
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Now it's the flood
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Fly,
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Now come the flies
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The year of the fly, fly.
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Ah, ah, ah, ah,