To Be Free chords

[D] .
[G] [Em] .
[D] [A] [D] .
[G] [D] .
Rhineland, New Jersey, farmland stretching, far as the eye [G] can see.
[Em].
No much down there [A] but sun-scorched pastures [D] in 1953.
[G] [D].
The war was over and they came searching for a place [G] to be.
[Em].
They left the Rhineland, [A] they lost their homeland [D] and all their [G] family.
[A] .
Like feathers [G] on the [D] ocean breeze, [G] they [Bm] went spinning [A] and tumbling across [D] the sea.
[Em] .
Never know where [G] they'd come down [A] or [D] who they'd be.
[A] .
Like heather [G] on the hillside, [Bm] they were bruised and [A] they were [D] battered by the breeze.
[Em] .
Searching [G] for a place [A] [D] to be free.
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[G] [F#] [Em] .
[A] [D] .
[G] [D] .
Sunburned summers, frostbite winters, the kids were plainly [G] dressed.
[Bm] [Em].
Left the farmhouse [A] when he was old enough [D] and headed out [G] west.
From [D] .
California to Southern Africa and all the way to [G] France [Em].
and on to England [A] to meet my mother [D] in 1981.
[G] [A] .
Like feathers [G] on the ocean breeze, [Em] they went [Bm] spinning and [A] tumbling across the [D] sea.
[Em] .
Never know where [G] they'd come down [A] or who [D] they'd be.
[A] .
Like heather on [G] the hillside, they [Bm] were bruised and they [A] were battered [D] by the breeze.
[Em] .
Searching for [G] a place [A] to [D] be free.
Oh, [G] like a seed [Gm] that is flying in the wind in [D] search of water, [A] soil and [Bm] sun.
[Em] .
The [E] birds and the bees to help it [A] all along.
[B] [A] .
[D] Now here I am, 33 years down, [G] 2017.
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[Em] I've seen the Rhineland, [A] I've been to Vineland, [D] I'm a feather on the [G] breeze.
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[N] .