John Hiatt – Homeland (Guitar Live)
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Lyrics are from "The Open Road" CD.
[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]
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