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Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":75916,"song":"Homeless Brother","artist":"Don McLean","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/75916-homeless-brother-chords-by-don-mclean/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/75916?type=chord","rating":4.57746,"votes":9,"content":"Homeless Brother - Don McLean\r\n-----------------------------\r\n\r\nFrom his live album `SOLO'.\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI was walking by the graveyard, late last Friday night,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]F#[/ch]                         [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nI heard somebody yelling, it sounded like a fight.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]Bm[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt was just a drunken hobo dancing circles in the night,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nPouring whiskey on the headstones in the blue moonlight.[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nSo often have I wondered where these homeless brothers go,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                     [ch]A[/ch]                   \r\nDown in some hidden valley were their sorrows cannot show,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]Bm[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere the police cannot find them, where the wanted men can go.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThere's freedom when your walking, even though you're walking slow.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\n   Smash your bottle on a gravestone and live while you can,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\n   that homeless brother is my friend.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nIt's hard to be a pack rat, it's hard to be a 'bo,\r\nbut living's so much harder where the heartless people go.\r\nSomewhere the dogs are barking and the children seem to know\r\nThat Jesus on the highway was a lost hobo.\r\nAnd they hear the holy silence of the temples in the hill,\r\nAnd they see the ragged tatters as another kind of thrill.\r\nAnd they envy him the sunshine and they pity him the chill,\r\nAnd they're sad to do their living for some other kind of thrill.\r\n\r\n   Smash your bottle on a gravestone and live while you can,\r\n   that homeless brother is my friend.\r\n\r\nSomewhere there was a woman, somewhere there was a child,\r\nSomewhere there was a cottage where the marigolds grew wild.\r\nBut somewhere's just like nowhere when you leave it for a while,\r\nYou'll find the broken-hearted when you're traveling jungle-style.\r\nDown the bowels of a broken land where numbers live like men,\r\nWhere those who keep their senses have them taken back again,\r\nWhere the nightstick cracks with crazy rage, where madmen don't pretend,\r\nWhere wealth has no beginning and poverty no end.\r\n\r\n   Smash your bottle on a gravestone and live while you can,\r\n   that homeless brother is my friend.\r\n\r\nThe ghosts of highway royalty have vanished in the night,\r\nThe Whitman wanderer walking toward a glowing inner light.\r\nThe children have grown older and the cops have gripped us tight,\r\nThere's no spot round the melting pot for free men in their flight.\r\nAnd you who leave on promises and prosper as you please,\r\nThe victim of your riches often dies of your disease,\r\nHe can't hear the factory whistle, just the lonesome freight train's whirs,\r\nHe's living on good fortune, he ain't dying on his knees.\r\n\r\n   Smash your bottle on a gravestone and live while you can,\r\n   that homeless brother is my friend.\r\n   That homeless brother is my friend.","plain_text":"Homeless Brother - Don McLean\n-----------------------------\n\nFrom his live album `SOLO'.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt's hard to be a pack rat, it's hard to be a 'bo,\nbut living's so much harder where the heartless people go.\nSomewhere the dogs are barking and the children seem to know\nThat Jesus on the highway was a lost hobo.\nAnd they hear the holy silence of the temples in the hill,\nAnd they see the ragged tatters as another kind of thrill.\nAnd they envy him the sunshine and they pity him the chill,\nAnd they're sad to do their living for some other kind of thrill.\n\n   Smash your bottle on a gravestone and live while you can,\n   that homeless brother is my friend.\n\nSomewhere there was a woman, somewhere there was a child,\nSomewhere there was a cottage where the marigolds grew wild.\nBut somewhere's just like nowhere when you leave it for a while,\nYou'll find the broken-hearted when you're traveling jungle-style.\nDown the bowels of a broken land where numbers live like men,\nWhere those who keep their senses have them taken back again,\nWhere the nightstick cracks with crazy rage, where madmen don't pretend,\nWhere wealth has no beginning and poverty no end.\n\n   Smash your bottle on a gravestone and live while you can,\n   that homeless brother is my friend.\n\nThe ghosts of highway royalty have vanished in the night,\nThe Whitman wanderer walking toward a glowing inner light.\nThe children have grown older and the cops have gripped us tight,\nThere's no spot round the melting pot for free men in their flight.\nAnd you who leave on promises and prosper as you please,\nThe victim of your riches often dies of your disease,\nHe can't hear the factory whistle, just the lonesome freight train's whirs,\nHe's living on good fortune, he ain't dying on his knees.\n\n   Smash your bottle on a gravestone and live while you can,\n   that homeless brother is my friend.\n   That homeless brother is my friend.","chords":["A","D","F#","Bm","G","E"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}