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Song title: Phil Ochs - In The Heat Of The Summer

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Intro: dm gm dm gm dm

Gm	   dm
In the heat of the summer
F			 a
When the pavements were burning
Dm	  c	  dm
The soul of a city was ravaged in the night
Gm	    dm
After the city sun was sinkin

Dm	    gm	  dm
Now no one knows how it started
F		  a
Why the windows were shattered
Dm 	 c	  dm
But deep in the dark, someone set the spark
Gm	   dm
And then it no longer mattered.

Dm	 gm		  dm
Down the streets they were rumbling
F			a
All the tempers were ragin
Dm 	 c	   dm
Oh, where, oh, where are the white silver tongues
Gm		 dm
Who forgot to listen to the warnings?

Dm	 gm	   dm
On and on come the angry
F		   a
No longer following reason
Dm	  c		  dm
And all the stores were the target now
Gm 		 dm
Where just the other day they were buyin

Dm	   gm 	  dm
Drunk with the memory of the ghetto
F			   a
Drunk with the lure of the looting
Dm		  c		 dm
And the memory of the uniforms shoving with their sticks
Gm 	   dm
Asking, are you looking for trouble?

Dm	  gm		  dm
No, no, no, moaned the mayor.
F		   a
Its not the way of the order.
Dm 	c		  dm
Oh stay in your homes, please leave us alone
Gm		dm
Well be glad to talk in the morning.

Dm	    gm		 dm
For shame, for shame, wrote the papers.
F		    a
Why the hurry to your hunger?
Dm 	 c	    dm
Now the rubbles resting on your broken streets
Gm		 dm
So you see what your rage has unraveled.

Dm	  gm	    dm
Baricades sadly were risin
F			 a
Bricks were heavily flyin
Dm 	 c		   dm
And the loudspeaker drowned like a whisperin sound
Gm	   dm
When compared to the angered emotions

Dm	  gm	   dm
And when the fury was over
F				  a
And the shame was replacing the anger.
Dm	   c 	  dm
So wrong, so wrong, but weve been down so long
Gm		 dm
And we had to make somebody listen
Gm	  dm	   gm dm gm dm
In the heat of the summer......

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