Homeland

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

She was buried in the back with the English and the Natives
D
Slaughtered like sheep, women and babies
C                         B                  Em
A lot of blood and tears three 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                   Em
Lookin' for a trail to find their way back home

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


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


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

They been troublin' this plane, looking for attention
D
Making crazy tracks, they need an intervention
C                            B             Em
All they really want, is to get back home somehow
                                            D
So build up a fire, say a little 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
                                              D
You can't bury anything, men or nations, old memories, old vibrations
 C                      B                        Em
The pain doesn't stop.. just because the killing ceased


[Chorus]
      C                  G               D                Em
And I call this place my homeland and I claim this land I own
      C                 G                D      B        Em
It belongs to another people... 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                         Em
Started to shake cause I couldn't 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            Em
Cryin' like a child while Bayou Pierre groaned


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