G
Way back in the days of Noah
C
G
Water covered all this land
A7
D7
Started up on life again
G
And the Good Book tells of fires
C
G
That will fill the earth some day
D7
G
As this earth shall pass away
C
This old world (this old world)
G
Will melt away (will melt away)
D7
But it will be (but it will be)
G
Too late to pray
C
G
And it’s rocking to and fro
A7
D7
Hear it on the radio
G
In the movies they are showing
C
G
Towns and cities how they blaze
D7
G
If we follow sin’s highway
C
This old world (this old world)
G
Will melt away (will melt away)
D7
But it will be (but it will be)
G
Too late to pray
C
G
Oh how awful was her fate
A7
D7
Now the story we’ll relate
G
Of the Wine-coff in Atlanta
C
G
How she burned right to the ground
D7
G
And the dead lay all around
C
This old world (this old world)
G
Will melt away (will melt away)
D7
But it will be (but it will be)
G
Too late to pray
D7
A7
C
G
