{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1135885,"song":"Homeless Brother","artist":"Don McLean","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11252611-homeless-brother-chords-by-don-mclean/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1135885?type=chord","rating":4.78611,"votes":39,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nI was walking by the graveyard[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nlate last Friday night[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI heard somebody yelling[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nit sounded like a fight[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIt was just a drunken hobo dancing circles in the night[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPouring whiskey on the head stones[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nin the blue moon light[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSo often have I wondered where those homeless brothers go[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]                                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDown in some hidden valley where their sorrows cannot show[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhere the police cannot find them[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nwhere the wanted man can go[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere's freedom when you're walking[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\neven though you are walking slow[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSmash your bottle on the grave stone and live while you can[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D7[/ch]       [ch]G7[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat homeless brother is my friend[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's hard to be a pack rat[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt's hard to be a 'bo[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut living's so much harder where the heartless people go[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSomewhere the dogs are barking[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nand the children seem to know[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat Jesus on the highway was a lost hobo[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd they hear the holy silence of the temples in the hill[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nAnd they see the ragged tatters[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nas another kind of frill[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd they envy him the sunshine and they pity him the chill[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand they are sad to do their living[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nfor some other kind of thrill[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSmash your bottle on the grave stone and live while you can[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D7[/ch]       [ch]G7[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat homeless brother is my friend[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSomewhere there was a woman[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nsomewhere there was a child[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSomewhere there was a cottage[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhere the marigolds grew wild[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBut somewhere's just like nowhere when you leave it for a while[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou'll find the broken hearted when you're trav'ling jungle style[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nDown the bowels of a broken land where numbers live like men[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D7[/ch]                                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere those who keep their senses have them taken back again[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhere the night stick cracks with crazy rage where madmen don't pretend[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhere wealth has no beginning and poverty no end[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSmash your bottle on the grave stone and live while you can[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D7[/ch]       [ch]G7[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat homeless brother is my friend[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe ghosts of highway royalty have vanished in the night[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe Whitman wanderer walking t'ward a glowing inner light[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe children have grown older and the cops have gripped us tight[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere's no spot round the melting pot[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nfor free men in their fight[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd you who live on promises and prosper as you please[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D7[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe victim of your riches often dies of your disease[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHe can't hear the fact'ry whistle just the lonesome freight train's wheeze[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe's living on good fortune[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nhe ain't dying on his knees[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSmash your bottle on the grave stone and live while you can[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D7[/ch]       [ch]G7[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat homeless brother is my friend[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D7[/ch]       [ch]G7[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat homeless brother is my friend[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["G7","C","E","Am","F","G","D7"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,3],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"G7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,2,0,0,0,1],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,1]}}}