John Hiatt – Homeland Live chords

[Verse 1]
 EmWell, I jumped so high knocked the table over
DThought I saw a ghost come out of the clover
C                         B                EmShe lived in this house forty odd years or so

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

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

But there's nothing back there or tomorrow
D                                   CNo place they can put their sorrow heavy as death
B                 EmCold as a broken stone


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


[Verse 2]
EmWell, I can hear them in the night like a hundred televisions
DHummin' down low beneath the subdivisions
C                          B              EmAll they really want is if we can hear em now

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


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


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
EmWell, I jumped so high straight up off the bedsheet
DNightmare sky... bloody with the red heat
C                        B                         EmStarted to shake cause I couldn't find my way back home

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


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

[Outro]
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