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

"it's not the way of the order.

Dm 	c		   dm

"oh stay in your homes, please leave us alone

Gm		dm

"we'll 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 rubble's 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 we've 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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