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Homeland by John Hiatt
Homeland
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
[Verse 1]
Em
Well, I jumped so high knocked the table over
D
Thought I saw a ghost come out of the clover
C B Em
She lived in this house forty odd years or so
She was buried in the back with the English and the Natives
D
Slaughtered like sheep, women and babies
C B Em
A lot of blood and tears three hundred years ago
It's like they're caught up in the trees in the webs of spiders
D
Spun out of leaves, ghostly riders
C B Em
Lookin' for a trail to find their way back home
But there's nothing back there or tomorrow
D C
No place they can put their sorrow heavy as death
B Em
Cold as a broken stone
[Chorus]
C G D Em
And I call this place my homeland and I claim this land I own
C G D B Em
But it belongs to another people.. they possess it in their bones
[Verse 2]
Em
Well, I can hear them in the night like a hundred televisions
D
Hummin' down low beneath the subdivisions
C B Em
All they really want is if we can hear em now
They been troublin' this plane, looking for attention
D
Making crazy tracks, they need an intervention
C B Em
All they really want, is to get back home somehow
D
So build up a fire, say a little prayer and cook a little meat
C
Pull 'em up a chair and offer them a plate
B Em
Maybe we can all find peace
D
You can't bury anything, men or nations, old memories, old vibrations
C B Em
The pain doesn't stop.. just because the killing ceased
[Chorus]
C G D Em
And I call this place my homeland and I claim this land I own
C G D B Em
It belongs to another people... they possess it in their bones
[Instrumental]
C G D Em C G D B7 Em
[Verse 3]
Em
Well, I jumped so high straight up off the bedsheet
D
Nightmare sky... bloody with the red heat
C B Em
Started to shake cause I couldn't find my way back home
Well, I landed in the ditch landed in the gutter
D
Landed in arms of my long lost mother
C B Em
Cryin' like a child while Bayou Pierre groaned
[Chorus]
C G D Em
And I call this place my homeland and I Love this land I own
C G D B Em
But It belongs to another people they possess it in their bones
C G D Em
Yeah, I call this place my homeland and I claim this land I own
C G D B Em
But it belongs to another people they possess it in their bones..
[Outro]
D C B Em
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