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                  D        G   C
I was born on the holy ground
          G        D         G
A running child in fields of clover
                    D        G   C
I was living in the grandeur of
                   D  G
My father's land

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                   D        G    C
By the side of the swirling sea
            G       D        G
I spent the days of childish wonder
                    D        G      C
And rocks I held in my young hands
                              D  G
I never felt them slip away

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                    D       G       C
Well, the sun shone bright upon the waves
        G         D       G
And the wind blew high as I was leaving
                D    G    C
And I sailed so far away
                        D  G
Looking for adventure

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                D              G    C
But I would not stay where the city streets
              G      D       G
Proclaimed so loudly man's endeavours
                  D      G      C
Though music is a pretty thing
                  D  G
In fine company

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              D         G          C
And the wilderness took my breath away
        G        D     G
Under a sun that never falters
                D       G          C
I felt I had to find my way where
                   D  G
No one ever goes

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              D             G        C
It was in the south that my new home lay
                 G       D    G
With a dark-eyed boy and wild horses
                       D     G         C
With humming birds and roses there in
             D  G
Old Mexico

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                                D       G   C
There the winds of change, they blew so far
        G      D   G
Of liberty and revolution
                        D            G       C
It seemed that each man heard in his breast
                           D  G
The drumming of a nation

[Verse]
                  D        G   C
I was born on the holy ground
          G        D         G
A running child in fields of clover
                    D        G   C
I was living in the grandeur of
                   D  G
My father's land