Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was born on the holy ground,
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a running boy in fields of clover
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Living in the grandeur of
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my father's land
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By the side of the swirling sea
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I spent my days in childish wonder
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The rocks I held in my hands
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The sun shone bright upon the waves
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and the wind blew high as I was leaving
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I sailed so far away,
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looking for adventure
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the city streets
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Proclaim so loudly man's endeavor
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And though music is a pretty thing
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In fine company
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The wilderness took
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my health away
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And you're a son that never falters
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A man has to find his way
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Where no one ever goes
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It was in the south that my new home lay
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With a dark -eyed girl an d wild horses
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And hummingbirds and roses there
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In old Mexico
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But the winds of change,
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they blew so far,
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Of liberty and revolution,
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Seemed each man held in his breast
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The drumming of a nation
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Oh, on the fields where the guns did play
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There I'd fell with many in weather
Where the sagebrush flows
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and the desert wind is
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blowing through
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I was born on the holy ground,
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a running boy in fields of clover
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Living in the grandeur of
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my father's land
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