Before The Deluge
Joan Baez

Some of them were dreamers

And some of them were fools

Who were making plans and thinking of the future

With the energy of the innocent

They were gathering the tools

They would need to make their journey back to nature

While the sand slipped through the opening

And their hands reached for the golden ring

With their hearts they turned to each other's heart for refuge

In the troubled years that came before the deluge


Some of them knew pleasure

And some of them knew pain

And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered

And on the brave and crazy wings of youth

They went flying around in the rain

And their feathers, once so fine, grew torn and tattered

And in the end they traded their tired wings

For the resignation that living brings

And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow

For the glitter and the rouge

And in the moment they were swept before the deluge


Now let the music keep our spirits high

And let the buildings keep our children dry

Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by

By and by...

When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky


Some of them were angry

At the way the earth was abused

By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power

And they struggled to protect her from them

Only to be confused

By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour

And when the sand was gone and the time arrived

In the naked dawn only a few survived

And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge

Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge


Now let the music keep our spirits high

And let the buildings keep our children dry

Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by

By and by...

When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky


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  'Nu Bello Cardillo   (Ain't Gonna Let Nobody) Turn Me Around   (Ain't Gonna Let Nobody) Turn Me Around   'nu Bello Cardillo   A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall   A Heartfelt Line Or Two   A Mi Manera   A Satisfied Mind   A Song For David   A Stranger in My Place   A Swallow Song   A Young Gypsy   Adeste Fidelis [Instrumental]   Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around   All in Green Went My Love Riding   All In Green Went My Love Riding (E. E. Cummings)   All My Trails   All My Trials   All My Trials, Lord   All the Pretty Little Horses   All The Pretty Little Horses (Negro Lullaby)   All The Weary Mothers Of The Earth   Amazing Grace   Amsterdam   And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda   Angeline   Angels We Have Heard on High   Angels We Have Heard on High [Instrumental]   Annabel Lee   Asimbonanga   Astrapsen (The Sun Is Risen)   At\u00c3\u00a9 Amanh\u00c3\u00a3   Até Amanhã   Até Amanhã   Autumn Leaves   Ave Maria (Sung in German)   Away In A Manger   Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You   Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 -- Aria   Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti   Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti   Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Pt. 1   Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Pt. 2   Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Pt. 3   Banks of the Ohio   Barbara Allen   Battle Hymn of the Republic   Be Not Too Hard   Best of Friends   Birmingham Sunday   Black Is The Color   Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair   Blessed Are   Blessed Are...   Blowin' in the Wind   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Colores   Dear Landlord   Deck the Halls   Deck the Halls [Instrumental]   Diamonds & Rust   Diamonds And Rust   Do Right Woman, Do Right Man   Don't Blame My Mother   Don't Cry For Me Argentina   Don'T Think Twice Its Al   Don't Think Twice Its Al (Live)   Don't Think Twice, It's All Right   Donna Donna   Down In Yon Forest   Down In Yon Forrest   Drifter's Escape   Drug Store Truck Drivin Man   East Virginia   Edge Of Glory   El Preso Numero Nueve   El Rossinyol   Eleanor Rigby   Elvis Presley Blues   Engine 143   Esquinazo Del Guerrillero   Famous Blue Raincoat   Fare Thee Well   Fare Thee Well (10,000 Miles)   Farewell Angelina   Farewell, Angelina   February   February (Live)   Fennario   Fennario [#]   Fifteen Months   Finlandia   Fishing   Fishing (Live)   Flora the Lily of the West   For All We Know   For Sasha   Forever Young   Fountain Of Sorrow   Free At Last   Freight Train   Gabriel And Me   Gacela Of The Dark Death   Geordie   Geordie (Live)   Georgie   Ghetto   Glad 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