Tonalité : E minor•
Intro 1
Em
D
C
B
Em
Verse 1
Em
Well, I jumped
so high
Knocked the table over
D
Thought I saw a ghost
Come out of the clover
C
She lived in this house
B
Forty odd years or so
Em
Verse 2
She was buried in the back
With the English and the natives
D
Slaughtered like sheep
Women and babies
C
A lot of blood and tears
B
Three hundred years ago
Em
Verse 3
It's like they're caught up in the trees
In the webs of spiders
D
Spun out of leaves
Ghostly riders
C
Lookin' for a trail
B
To find their way back home
Em
Verse 4
But there's nothing back
there or tomorrow
D
No place they can put their sorrow
C
Heavy as death
B
Em
Cold as a broken stone
Verse 5
C
G
And I call this place my homeland
D
Em
And I claim this land I own
C
G
But it belongs to another people
D
B
They possess it in their bones
Em
Verse 6
Well, I can hear them in the night
Like a hundred televisions
D
Hummin' down low
beneath the subdivisions
C
B
All they really want is if we can
hear â??em now
Em
Verse 7
They been troublin' this plain
Looking for attention
D
Making crazy tracks
They need an intervention
C
All they really want
B
Is to get back home somehow
Em
Verse 8
So build up a fire
Say a little prayer
D
Cook a little meat
Pull â??em up a chair
C
And offer them a plate
B
Em
Maybe we can all find peace
Verse 9
Em
You can't bury anything, men or nations
D
Old memories, old vibrations
C
B
The pain doesn't stop just
because the killing ceased
Em
Verse 10
C
G
And I call this place my homeland
D
Em
And I claim this land I own
C
G
It belongs to another people
D
B
They possess it in their bones
Interlude 1
Em
C
G
D
Em
C
G
D
B
Em
D
Em
D
Verse 11
Em
Well, I jumped so high
D
Straight up off the bedsheet
Nightmare sky
Bloody with the red heat
C
Started to shake
Em
Cause I couldn't find my way back home
Verse 12
Em
Well, I landed in the ditch
Landed in the gutter
D
Landed in arms of my long lost mother
C
Cryin' like a child
B
While the Bayou Pierre groaned
Verse 13
Em
C
G
And I call this place my homeland
D
Em
And I love this land I own
B
C
G
It be longs to another people
D
B
They possess it in their bones
Em
Verse 14
C
G
Yeah, I call this place my homeland
D
Em
And I claim this land I own
G
C
G
But it belongs to another people
D
B
They possess it in their bones
Outro 1
Em
D
C
B
Em
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