The Great Chicago Fire (Track 9) | American History Album | Folk Blues

Описание: 🎵 THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE 🎵
Track 9 from the American History Album - the story of the inferno that destroyed Chicago and the city that rose from the ashes.

🎸 GENRE 🎸
Uptempo Folk Blues with Lead Guitar

🔥 ABOUT THIS SONG 🔥
October 8, 1871. A lantern kicked over in Mrs. O'Leary's barn. Southwest winds pushed flames through Chicago's wooden buildings. For two days, the city burned. 17,000 buildings destroyed. 300 dead. 100,000 homeless. Three square miles reduced to ash. The courthouse bell rang warnings too late. Fire jumped the river. Rich and poor fled together, watching everything collapse. But Chicago didn't stay down - the city rebuilt bigger, stronger, and fireproof. This uptempo folk blues races through the chaos of the fire with driving rhythm and explosive energy, featuring extended bluesy guitar solos that capture both the destruction and the determination to rebuild.

📝 LYRICS 📝
October eighth... eighteen seventy-one,
Mrs. O'Leary's barn, that's where it begun,
Kicked the lantern over... flames took to the sky,
Chicago's wooden buildings... built to burn and die.
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Wind from the southwest... pushing fire through the streets,
Three hundred dead and more... running from the heat,
Seventeen thousand buildings... gone in two days' time,
Watched the city that we built... go up in smoke and fire.
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Run... can't outrun the flames,
(the flames...)
Everything we built... going up the same,
(the same...)
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Chicago's burning... burning to the ground,
Whole city running... can't escape the sound,
Of timber cracking... glass exploding in the heat,
Chicago's burning... ashes in the street.
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Courthouse bell was ringing... warning came too late,
Fire jumped the river... couldn't stop its hate,
Rich and poor together... watching dreams collapse,
Three square miles of nothing... just the aftermath.
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They say we'll build it bigger... (build it bigger...)
Rise up from the ash... (from the ash...)
But standing in these ruins...
Hard to see past what we had.
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Chicago's burning... burning to the ground,
Whole city running... can't escape the sound,
Of timber cracking... glass exploding in the heat,
Chicago's burning... ashes in the street.
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By morning it was over... nothing left but smoke,
Hundred thousand homeless... everything we built went broke,
But we're Chicago... we don't stay down long,
Built it back up stronger... that's the city's song.

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