Gordon Bok – Return To The Land (Guitar)

C
There comes a time when I look out to find

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The hungry are hungry again

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When did I last speak to Alice, how to help ease their pain

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When hope leaves, I know I've been hopeless, like a spark in the rain

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And the when crumble, it makes me feel humble

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As though I'm the one who's to blame

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But nothing is won when the crying is done

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'Til your friends take you up by the hand

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Return to the earth, you feel your own birth come again

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When your bridges are burned, you will try to return to the land

C
South of the border, the coffee beans order

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The coca is turned to cocaine

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Tons of bananas and miles of the sweet sugar cane

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Grown for the pleasure of some by others who strain

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And long do they stand and stare at the land

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That they work for another man's gain

    Em                      Dm7
But nothing is won when the crying is done

          F                          C
'Til your friends take you up by the hand

  Em          Dm         Em                        A
Return to the earth, you feel your own birth come again

          F                            Dm       G           C
When your bridges are burned, you will try to return to the land

C
And there is the other, forgot by his brother

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Alone at the end of the day

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Searching in vain for the work that would gain him his pay

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He tries to forget all the others he's met by the way

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And there in the dark the voice in his heart 

          F                    C
Calls him home to a place far away

    Em                      Dm7
But nothing is won when the crying is done

          F                          C
'Til your friends take you up by the hand

  Em          Dm         Em                        A
Return to the earth, you feel your own birth come again

          F                            Dm       G           C     F  C
When your bridges are burned, you will try to return to the land

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And when you are through, it always forgives you, the land