{"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":2769793,"song":"Homeland","artist":"John Hiatt","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11632614-homeland-chords-by-john-hiatt/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2769793?type=chord","rating":4.548,"votes":6,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWell, I jumped so high knocked the table over[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nThought I saw a ghost come out of the clover[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]B[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nShe lived in this house forty odd years or so[/tab]\r\n\r\nShe was buried in the back with the English and the Natives\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nSlaughtered like sheep, women and babies[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]B[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nA lot of blood and tears three hundred years ago[/tab]\r\n\r\nIt's like they're caught up in the trees in the webs of spiders\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nSpun out of leaves, ghostly riders[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]B[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nLookin' for a trail to find their way back home[/tab]\r\n\r\nBut there's nothing back there or tomorrow\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNo place they can put their sorrow heavy as death[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nCold as a broken stone[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I call this place my homeland and I claim this land I own[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]B[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut it belongs to another people.. they possess it in their bones[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWell, I can hear them in the night like a hundred televisions[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nHummin' down low beneath the subdivisions[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]B[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAll they really want is if we can hear em now[/tab]\r\n\r\nThey been troublin' this plane, looking for attention\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nMaking crazy tracks, they need an intervention[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]B[/ch]             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAll they really want, is to get back home somehow[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSo build up a fire, say a little prayer and cook a little meat[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nPull 'em up a chair and offer them a plate[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nMaybe we can all find peace[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou can't bury anything, men or nations, old memories, old vibrations[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]B[/ch]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe pain doesn't stop.. just because the killing ceased[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I call this place my homeland and I claim this land I own[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]B[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIt belongs to another people... they possess it in their bones[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]B7[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWell, I jumped so high straight up off the bedsheet[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nNightmare sky... bloody with the red heat[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]B[/ch]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nStarted to shake cause I couldn't find my way back home[/tab]\r\n\r\nWell, I landed in the ditch landed in the gutter\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nLanded in arms of my long lost mother[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]B[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nCryin' like a child while Bayou Pierre groaned[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I call this place my homeland and I Love this land I own[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]B[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut It belongs to another people they possess it in their bones[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYeah, I call this place my homeland and I claim this land I own[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]B[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut it belongs to another people they possess it in their bones..[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\nShe was buried in the back with the English and the Natives\n\n\n\nIt's like they're caught up in the trees in the webs of spiders\n\n\n\nBut there's nothing back there or tomorrow\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\nThey been troublin' this plane, looking for attention\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nC G D Em C G D B7 Em\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\nWell, I landed in the ditch landed in the gutter\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\nD C B Em","chords":["Em","D","C","B","A","G","B7"],"chord_diagrams":{"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}