Homeland chords by
John Hiatt

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Key: E minor•

Intro 1

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Verse 1
Em Em 
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Well, I jumped
so high
Knocked the table over
D D 
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Thought I saw a ghost
Come out of the clover
C C 
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She lived in this house
B B 2
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Forty odd years or so
Em Em 
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Verse 2
She was buried in the back
With the English and the natives
D D 
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Slaughtered like sheep
Women and babies
C C 
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A lot of blood and tears
B B 2
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Three hundred years ago
Em Em 
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Verse 3
It's like they're caught up in the trees
In the webs of spiders
D D 
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Spun out of leaves
Ghostly riders
C C 
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Lookin' for a trail
B B 2
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To find their way back home
Em Em 
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Verse 4
But there's nothing back
there or tomorrow
D D 
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No place they can put their sorrow
C C 
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Heavy as death
B B 2
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Em Em 
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Cold as a broken stone

Verse 5
C C 
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G G 
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And I call this place my homeland
D D 
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Em Em 
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And I claim this land I   own
C C 
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G G 
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But it belongs to another people
D D 
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B B 2
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They possess it in their bones
Em Em 
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Verse 6
Well, I can hear them in the night
Like a hundred televisions
D D 
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Hummin' down low
beneath the subdivisions
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B B 2
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All they really want is if we can
hear Ã¢??em now
Em Em 
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Verse 7
They been troublin' this plain
Looking for attention
D D 
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Making crazy tracks
They need an intervention
C C 
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All they really want
B B 2
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Is to get back home somehow
Em Em 
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Verse 8
So build up a fire
Say a little prayer
D D 
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Cook a little meat
Pull Ã¢??em up a chair
C C 
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And offer them a plate
B B 2
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Em Em 
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Maybe we can all find peace

Verse 9
Em Em 
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You can't bury anything, men or nations
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Old memories, old vibrations
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B B 2
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The pain doesn't stop just
because the killing ceased
Em Em 
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Verse 10
C C 
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G G 
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And I call this place my homeland
D D 
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Em Em 
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And I claim this land I   own
C C 
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G G 
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It belongs to another people
D D 
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B B 2
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They possess it in their bones

Interlude 1
Em Em 
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C C 
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G G 
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D D 
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Em Em 
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C C 
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G G 
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D D 
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B B 2
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Em Em 
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D D 
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Em Em 
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D D 
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Verse 11
Em Em 
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Well, I jumped so high
D D 
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Straight up off the bedsheet
Nightmare sky
Bloody with the red heat
C C 
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Started to shake
Em Em 
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Cause I couldn't find my way back home

Verse 12
Em Em 
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Well, I landed in the ditch
Landed in the gutter
D D 
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Landed in arms of my long lost mother
C C 
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Cryin' like a child
B B 2
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While the Bayou Pierre groaned

Verse 13
Em Em 
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C C 
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G G 
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And I call this place my homeland
D D 
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Em Em 
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And I love this land I   own
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C C 
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G G 
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It be longs to another people
D D 
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B B 2
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They possess it in their bones
Em Em 
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Verse 14
C C 
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G G 
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Yeah, I call this place my homeland
D D 
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Em Em 
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And I claim this land I own
G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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But it belongs to another people
D D 
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B B 2
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They possess it in their bones