Homeland

 Em
Well, I jumped so high knocked the 
table over
D
Thought I saw a ghost come out of 
the clover
C                         B      
She lived in this house forty odd
          Em
 years or so

She was buried in the back with the 
English and the Natives
D
Slaughtered like sheep, women and 
babies
C                         B 
A lot of blood and tears three 
                 Em
hundred years ago

It's like they're caught up in the 
trees in the webs of spiders
D
Spun out of leaves, ghostly riders
C                      B         
Lookin' for a trail to find their
          Em
 way back home

But there's nothing back there or 
tomorrow
D                                 
No place they can put their sorrow
  C
 heavy as death
B                 Em
Cold as a broken stone


[Chorus]
      C                  G        
And I call this place my homeland 
       D                Em
and I claim this land I own
          C                G      
But it belongs to another people..
        D        B        Em
 they possess it in their bones


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[Verse 2]
Em
Well, I can hear them in the night 
like a hundred televisions
D
Hummin' down low beneath the 
subdivisions
C                          B     
All they really want is if we can
         Em
 hear em now

They been troublin' this plane, 
looking for attention
D
Making crazy tracks, they need an 
intervention
C                            B   
All they really want, is to get 
          Em
back home somehow
So build up a fire, say a little 
           D
prayer and cook a little meat
                         C
Pull 'em up a chair and offer them a
 plate
B                     Em
Maybe we can all find peace
You can't bury anything, men or 
              D
nations, old memories, old 
vibrations
 C                      B         
The pain doesn't stop.. just 
               Em
because the killing ceased


[Chorus]
      C                  G        
And I call this place my homeland 
       D                Em
and I claim this land I own
      C                 G         
It belongs to another people... 
       D      B        Em
they possess it in their bones


[Instrumental]
C G D Em C G D B7 Em


[Verse 3]
Em
Well, I jumped so high straight up 
off the bedsheet
D
Nightmare sky... bloody with the red
 heat
C                        B       
Started to shake cause I couldn't
                  Em
 find my way back home

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


[Chorus]
       C                 G        
And I call this place my homeland 
      D                Em
and I Love this land I own
       C                  G    
But It belongs to another people 
          D       B        Em
they possess it in their bones
        C                  G      
Yeah, I call this place my 
        D                 Em
homeland and I claim this land I own
         C                G    
But it belongs to another people 
          D       B         Em
they possess it in their bones..