D Dsus2 D Dsus2 D Dsus2 G Em7 A D G D Vineland, New Jersey, farm land stretching G G D/F# Far as the eye can see Em7 A A4 Not much down there, but sun-scorched pastures in D G Nineteen-fifty-three D The war is over, they came searching G D/F# For a place to be Em7 A A4 They left the Rhineland, they lost their homeland, and D G All their family A G Like feathers on the ocean breeze Bm A/C# D They went spinning and tumbling 'cross the sea Em G A Never known where they'd come down D Or who they'd be A G Like heather on the hillside Bm A/C# D They were bruised and they were battered by the breeze Em7 G A Searching for a place D To be free D Dsus2 D Dsus2 D G Em7 A D G D Sun burn summers and frostbite winter G G D/F# Kids were plainly dressed Em7 A A4 Left the farmhouse when he was old enough, and D G Headed out west D From California to Southern Africa G G D/F# And all the way to France Em7 A And on to England to meet my mother in D G G D/F# Nineteen-eighty-one A G A feather on the ocean breeze Bm A/C# D He went spinning and tumbling 'cross the sea Em G A Never known where he'd come down D Or who he'd be A G Like heather on the hillside Bm A/C# D He was bruised and he was battered by the breeze Em7 G A Searching for a place D To be free G Oh, and like a seed Gm That is flying in the wind D A Bm In search of water, soil, and sun Em7 E9 And the birds and the bees A A4 A To have it all along D Now here I am, thirty-three years down G Two-thousand-seventeen Em7 A A4 D I've seen the Rhineland, I've been to Vineland, I'm G A feather on the breeze
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