Homeland chords by John Hiatt

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Em 
Well, I jumped  (E minor) 
so high
Knocked the table over
D 
 (D major) Thought I saw a ghost
Come out of the clover
C 
She  (C major) lived in this house
B 
Forty  (B major) odd years or so
Em 
 (E minor) 

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Verse 2

She was buried in the back

With the English and the natives

Slaughtered like sheep

Women and babies

A lot of blood and tears

Three hundred years ago

Verse 3
It's like they're caught up in the trees
In the webs of spiders
D 
Spun  (D major) out of leaves
Ghostly riders
C 
 (C major) Lookin' for a trail
B 
To  (B major) find their way back home
Em 
 (E minor) 

Verse 4
But there's nothing back
there or tomorrow
D 
 (D major) No place they can put their sorrow
C 
 (C major) Heavy as death
B 
Em 
 (B major) Cold as a broken stone (E minor) 

Verse 5
C 
G 
And I  (C major) call this place my  (G major) homeland
D 
Em 
And I  (D major) claim this land I  (E minor) own
C 
G 
But it belongs  (C major) to another  (G major) people
D 
B 
They  (D major) possess it  (B major) in their bones
Em 
 (E minor) 

Verse 6
Well, I can hear them in the night
Like a hundred televisions
D 
 (D major) Hummin' down low
beneath the subdivisions
C 
B 
 (C major) All they really want is if  (B major) we can
hear Ã¢??em now
Em 
 (E minor) 

Verse 7
They been troublin' this plain
Looking for attention
D 
Mak (D major) ing crazy tracks
They need an intervention
C 
 (C major) All they really want
B 
Is to  (B major) get back home somehow
Em 
 (E minor) 

Verse 8
So build up a fire
Say a little prayer
D 
 (D major) Cook a little meat
Pull Ã¢??em up a chair
C 
And  (C major) offer them a plate
B 
Em 
 (B major) Maybe we can all find  (E minor) peace

Verse 9
Em 
You can't  (E minor) bury anything, men or nations
D 
 (D major) Old memories, old vibrations
C 
B 
The  (C major) pain doesn't stop  (B major) just
because the killing ceased
Em 
 (E minor) 

Verse 10
C 
G 
And I call  (C major) this place my  (G major) homeland
D 
Em 
And I claim  (D major) this land I  (E minor) own
C 
G 
It be (C major) longs to another people  (G major) 
D 
B 
They pos (D major) sess it  (B major) in their bones

Interlude 1
Em 
C 
 (E minor)  (C major) 
G 
 (G major) 
D 
 (D major) 
Em 
C 
 (E minor)  (C major) 
G 
D 
 (G major)  (D major) 
B 
Em 
D 
 (B major)  (E minor)  (D major) 
Em 
D 
 (E minor)  (D major) 

Verse 11
Em 
Well, I  (E minor) jumped so high
D 
Straight up off the  (D major) bedsheet
Nightmare sky
Bloody with the red heat
C 
Star (C major) ted to shake
Em 
Cause I couldn't find my way back  (E minor) home

Verse 12
Em 
 (E minor) 
Well, I landed in the ditch
Landed in the gutter
D 
 (D major) Landed in arms of my long lost mother
C 
 (C major) Cryin' like a child
B 
 (B major) While the Bayou Pierre groaned

Verse 13
Em 
C 
G 
 (E minor) And I call  (C major) this place my  (G major) homeland
D 
Em 
And I  (D major) love this land I  (E minor) own
B 
C 
G 
It  (B major) be  (C major) longs to another  (G major) people
D 
B 
They pos (D major) sess it  (B major) in their bones
Em 
 (E minor) 

Verse 14
C 
G 
Yeah, I call  (C major) this place my  (G major) homeland
D 
Em 
And I  (D major) claim this land I  (E minor) own
G 
C 
G 
 (G major) But it belongs  (C major) to another  (G major) people
D 
B 
They pos (D major) sess it  (B major) in their bones