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The Perilous Night [The New OK Version] Chords

Music by: Drive-By Truckers
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[Intro 1]
[Em][G][Am][Em][G][Am]
[Em][Am][Em][G][C]
[Em]We needed

[Verse 1]
[G]
warming from the [Am]cold [C]hard [Em]facts
Unheeded warnings [G]bout
[Em]the broken [C]tracks
[Em]All hope is fadi[G]ng,
it's not [Am]coming [C]back [Em]again
[G][Am][Em]

[Verse 2]
Uniting [G]forces may be
[C]calling [Em]fast
Changing courses [G]to some [C]Stalin past
[Em]Melting faces through the looking glass,
my friend
[G][Em][Am]

[Verse 3]
[C]
[Em]Something's got a hold[G]
[Em]of our feel alright
Out of con[G]trol in the
[Am]appetite[Em]
We're moving [G]into the [Am]peril[C]ous night,
[Em]Amen[G][Am][G]
[Am]Amen[Em]
[G][Am][Em][G][Am][Em]

[Verse 4]
Dumb, white and [G]angry with
their [Am]cup [C]half filled
[Em]Running over [G]people down
[Am]in Charlottes[Em] ville
White House [G]Fury, it's the killing [Em]side,
he defends
[G][Am][D]

[Verse 5]
[Em]
Defend the up-ender,
[G]yes yes he played [C]that [Em]tune
It ain't the [G]ending but
it's [Am]coming [Em]soon
We're making [G]love beneath [Am]a
sputnik moon [Em]again
[G][Em]

[Verse 6]
White House is [G]glowing from
the Red [Em]Square light
The gates at the [G]border being
[C]slammed down [Em]tight
We're moving [G]into the [Am]peril[C]ous night,
my [Em]friend
[G][Em]

[Verse 7]
Something's got a [G]hold of
our [Em]feel [C]alright[Em]
Out of con[G]trol in the [Am]ap p[Em]etite
We're moving [G]into [Am]the perilous [Em]night,
Amen
[Am]Amen

[Interlude 1]
[Em][Am][G][Am][Em][Asus2]
[Em][A][D][C][G][Em]
[C]

[Verse 8]
And [D]why's that drone looking
[C]through [G]my [Am]win d[G]ow[Em]?[C]
[D]World keeps turning in the [C]torch
light [G]shad[Em]ow[C]
[D]Fourth Reich in khakis is [C]beck
[Am]onin[G]g[Em][C]
[D]Both ends burning to the [C]reck
[Em]on i[C]ng[Em][G]

[Interlude 2]
[G][Em][G]
[Em][G][Am][Em][Am][Em][G]
[Am][F#dim][D]

[Verse 9]
[Em]Ronnie
[G]Re agan must be spin[Em]ning his grave
Putin's on [G]the rise,
[Am]Ukraine's under sieg[Em]e
[G]Fascism's knocking and Trump
says "Let [D]them [Em]in"
[G][Em]

[Verse 10]
[Em]I'd like t[G]o tell you there'll
be [Am]better [C]days[Em]
[G]But optimism's running
[Am]low [C]today[Em]
We're off [G]the deep end with
a lifeguard [C]that [Em]can't swim
[G]The

[Verse 11]
[Am]Klan[D] and[Em] the Nazis[G]
[Em]are taking up the fight
Against their own sal[G]vation in [C]the sa
viors [G]light[Em]
We're moving [G]into [Am]the perilous night,
Amen
[Em][G][Em][Am][G][Am]

[Verse 12]
[Em]Flags of op[G]pression [Em]are
blocking out the [G]light
[Em]Dismantling The [G]Greatest
Generation's [Em]fight
We're moving [G]into the [Am]perilous night,
[Em]Amen[A][G]
[Em]Amen[G][C]

[Outro 1]
Amen
[Em][G][Em][G][Em]
[C][G]
[Em][C]
[G][Em][Bm][D]
[C][G][Em]
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