C G D G
[Verse 1]
G C
If you go down to the water, and look out to sea
G C D
There will be a ship sailing, away on the breeze
G C G
She is heading for America, and that's where I'll be
C G D G
For the tide it is turning, for this land in me
[Verse 2]
G C
There's no end to the darkness, a blight on the land
G C D
We are drowning in hardship, no place for a man
G C G
With a dream that will take him, to where the wind blows
C G D G
I can't pay the middleman, so I must go
[Chorus]
D G
With rain in my heart, sun on my back
C D
There's a new world that's waiting for me
C G C
We've been praying for a miracle, and that's what we'll see
C G D G
When we're sailing to America, the land of the free
[Verse 3]
G C
There are many there before us, who with open arms
G C D
Will give every hope to a man who works hard
G C
There'll be others who hate us, and do as they please
C G D G
But anything is better than this place on it's knees
[Chorus]
D G
With rain in my heart, sun on my back
C D
There's a new world that's waiting for me
C G C
We've been praying for a miracle, and that's what we'll see
G C D G
When we're sailing to America, the land of the free
[Bridge]
Em D C G
There'll be some that will great us like dust in the wind
Em A D
"Go back now to where you came from"
Em D C G
And I'm told that they'll treat us like pigs in a pen
Am D G C G C G D G
So I know that I must be strong, I must be strong
[Chorus]
D G
With rain in my heart, sun on my back
C D
To the new world that's waiting for me
C G C
We've been praying for a miracle, and that's what we'll see
G C D Em
When we're sailing to America, the land of the free
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We'll be sailing to America, the land of the free
D G
The land of the free...
