CREEPING VINE -> HOLD BACK THE FLOOD     (by Ed Volker)
                      (transcribed by Alan Sigman, sigmana@faatcrl.faa.gov)

Intro:  E    E/G#  B  E

E                     E/G#
Baby I'm the creeping vine
     B                     E
I be creeping baby all the time
                       E/G#
This world it moves so fast
           B                    E
You see so many of them rollin' past
         B                 E      E/G#   B   E
And they all goin' nowhere fast

E                     E/G#
Baby you can drink my wine
    B                       E
Forget about your hard hard time
                   E/G#
The price is never right
           B                  E
Don't keep worryin' 'bout the cost
         B             E    E  Eb  D  C#
You know love is never lost

C#                  F#m
If I had my way I'd love all day
A                          B
If the price is right I'll fight all night

E                     E/G#
Baby I'm the creeping vine
     B                     E
I be creeping baby all the time
                      E/G#
This world may be the last
          B              E
Don't get hung up on the past
          B                 E      E/G#   B  E  (D C#) B...
'Cause we all goin' nowhere fast


E  D  C#m  D  E  D  C#m  D

     E          A
If I had half a chance
                      E
I think maybe I could get you
                   A
What I get I don't want
                             E        (bass: G# A)
I been thinking ever since I met you


CHORUS:
B
Where have I seen you before
A                       E    (bass: G# A)
When have I been you before
B
The wind start to howling

The moon is drippin' blood
A                      B               E  D  C#m  D             E  D  C#m 
D
Who's got the power to   hold back the flood      hold back the flood


        E                 A
I don't know nothing from you
                       E
All I know I can't forget you
                         A
If I could babe I surely would babe
                            E          (bass: G# A)
Step aside let someone else touch you


[repeat CHORUS]


     E          A
If I had half a chance
                                          E
I believe you'd receive the gift I got to give you
                   A
What I get I don't want
                                E         (bass: G# A)
I been drinkin' sinkin' since I met you


[repeat CHORUS]