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Homeland - John Hiatt Listen to the song here https://youtu.be/1f365_A6cTs Lyrics are from "The Open Road" CD. [Verse 1]
WEmell, I jumped so high knocked the table over DThought I saw a ghost come out of the clover CShe lived in this house foBrty odd years or Emso
She was buried in the back with the English and the Natives
DSlaughtered like sheep, women and babies CA lot of blood and tears tBhree hundred years Emago
It's like they're caught up in the trees in the webs of spiders
DSpun out of leaves, ghostly riders CLookin' for a trail to Bfind their way back Emhome
But there's nothing back there or tomorrow
DNo place they can put their sorrow hCeavy as death BCold as a broken sEmtone
[Chorus]
And I Ccall this place my Ghomeland and I cDlaim this land I Emown But it belCongs to another pGeople.. they poDssess it Bin their Embones
[Verse 2]
EmWell, I can hear them in the night like a hundred televisions DHummin' down low beneath the subdivisions CAll they really want is if Bwe can hear em Emnow
They been troublin' this plane, looking for attention
DMaking crazy tracks, they need an intervention CAll they really want, is to gBet back home sEmomehow So build up a fire, say a little prayer and Dcook a little meat Pull 'em up a chair and oCffer them a plate BMaybe we can all find Empeace You can't bury anything, men or nations, old mDemories, old vibrations TChe pain doesn't stop.. Bjust because the killing Emceased
[Chorus]
And I Ccall this place my Ghomeland and I cDlaim this land I Emown It belCongs to another peGople... they possDess it Bin their Embones
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EmWell, I jumped so high straight up off the bedsheet DNightmare sky... bloody with the red heat CStarted to shake cause I Bcouldn't find my way back Emhome
Well, I landed in the ditch landed in the gutter
DLanded in arms of my long lost mother CCryin' like a child while BBayou Pierre Emgroaned
[Chorus]
And I cCall this place my Ghomeland and I DLove this land I Emown But It Cbelongs to another Gpeople they posDsess it Bin their Embones Yeah, I Ccall this place my Ghomeland and I Dclaim this land I Emown But it beClongs to another Gpeople they posDsess it Bin their bEmones..
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