Chris de Burgh – The Road To Freedom (Guitar Acoustic)

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I feel the wind blowing through my doorway,

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it's telling me that the summer's gone,

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and the winter waits in shadow, waiting with the storm.

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I am old and my bones are weary,

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and my son, he is all I have,

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but he has gone to fight for freedom, leaving with my heart.

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All my life I have loved this land, worked it with my hands

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But can this freedom send the rain when seed is in the ground?

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Can this freedom heal the pain and bring my boy back to me again?

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Oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh,        oh, oh.    (x2)

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I watched them sail from the rocks below me,

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'twas like the sea in its endless rage,

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many fall on the road to freedom, dying on the stones.

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All my life I have loved this land, worked it with my hands,

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But can your freedom send the rain when seed is in the ground?

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Can your freedom heal the pain and bring my boy back to me again?

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Oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh,        oh, oh.

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Oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh,        oh, oh. - - - Oh oh.

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Late last night, as the world was sleeping,

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I dreamed my boy, he was calling out,

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'Cos he was lost in some dark forest,

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and snow was falling down, falling on the ground.

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Oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh,        oh, oh.