To Be Free Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][G]
[Em][A][D][G]

[Verse 1]
[D]Fine land,
New Jersey
Found land stretching
Far as the eye [G]can [Em]see
Not much down there, but
[A]Sun scorched pastures
[D]in
Nineteen-fifty-three
The [G]The [D]The war is over
And they came searching
For a place to [G]be
[Em]They left the Rhineland they[A]
Lost their homeland, [D]and
All their family
[G]

[Verse 2]
[A]
Like feathers on the [G]ocean breeze
They went spin[Bm]ning and tum
[A]bling 'cross [D]the sea[Em]
Never know where they'd
come [G]down[A]
Or who they'd [D]be

[Verse 3]
[A]
Like heather on the [G]hillside
They were [Bm]bruised and they [A]were battered
by [D]the [Em]breeze
Searching for [G]a place[A]

[Interlude 1]
To be free
[D][G]
[Em][A][D][G]

[Verse 4]
[D]Sun burn summers and
Frost by winter
The kids were plainly [G]dressed[Em]
Left the farmhouse [A]when
He was old enough, [D]and
Headed out [G]west
[D]From California
To southern Africa
And all the way to [G]France[Em]
And on to England, [A]to
Meet my mother [D]in
Nineteen-eighty-one

[Verse 5]
Like [G]Like [A]Like feathers
on the [G]ocean breeze
He went spin[Bm]ning and tum
[A]bling [D]'cross [Em]the sea
Never know where he'd
come [G]down[A]
Or who he'd be
[D]

[Verse 6]
[A]
Like heather on the hill[G]side
He were [Bm]bruised and they [A]were battered
by the [D]breeze[Em]
Searching for [G]a place[A]
To be [D]free

[Verse 7]
Oh, and like [G]a seed
That is [Gm]fly ing in the wind
In search of [D]water, [A]soil, and [Bm]sun[Em]
And the birds and [E]the bees
To have it all [A]along

[Verse 8]
[D]
Now, here I am
Thirty-three years years done
Two-thousand-seventeen
I've [G]I've [Em]I've seen
the Rhineland, [A]I've
Been to Vineland, [D]I'm

[Outro 1]
A feather on the breeze
[G][D]
[G][G][G]
[G]