To Be Free chords by Passenger

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: D MajorD

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
D MajorD G+G E minorEm A augmentedA D MajorD G+G


Verse 1:
D MajorD
Vineland, New Jersey, farm land stretching
          G+G
Far as the eye can see
E minorEm            A augmentedA
Not much down there, but sun-scorched pastures in
D MajorD       G+G
Nineteen-fifty-three
D MajorD
The war is over, they came searching
        G+G
For a place to be
E minorEm              A augmentedA
They left the Rhineland, they lost their homeland, and
D MajorD       G+G
All their family

Chorus:
A augmentedA          G+G
Like feathers on the ocean breeze
     B minorBm      A augmentedA          D MajorD
They went spinning and tumbling 'cross the sea
E minorEm            G+G     A augmentedA
Never known where they'd come down
       D MajorD
Or who they'd be
A augmentedA          G+G
Like heather on the hillside
     B minorBm          A augmentedA        D MajorD
They were bruised and they were battered by the breeze
E minorEm       G+G A augmentedA
Searching for a place
   D MajorD
To be free

Instrumental:
D MajorD G+G E minorEm A augmentedA D MajorD G+G

Verse 2:
D MajorD
Sun burn summers and frostbite winter
         G+G
Kids were plainly dressed
E minorEm            A augmentedA
Left the farmhouse when he was old enough, and
D MajorD      G+G
Headed out west
D MajorD
From California to Southern Africa
          G+G
And all the way to France
E minorEm          A augmentedA
And on to England to meet my mother in
D MajorD        G+G
Nineteen-eighty-one


Chorus:
A augmentedA         G+G
A augmentedA feather on the ocean breeze
    B minorBm      A augmentedA          D MajorD
He went spinning and tumbling 'cross the sea
E minorEm           G+G    A augmentedA
Never known where he'd come down
      D MajorD
Or who he'd be
A augmentedA          G+G
Like heather on the hillside
    B minorBm         A augmentedA        D MajorD
He was bruised and he was battered by the breeze
E minorEm       G+G A augmentedA
Searching for a place
   D MajorD
To be free


Bridge:
    G+G
Oh, and like a seed
    A#A#
That is flying in the wind
       D MajorD    A augmentedA    B minorBm
In search of water, soil, and sun
    E minorEm      E MajorE
And the birds and the bees
        A augmentedA  Asus4Asus4  A augmentedA
To have it all along


Verse 3:
D MajorD
Now here I am, thirty-three years down
         G+G
Two-thousand-seventeen
E minorEm              A augmentedA          D MajorD
I've seen the Rhineland, I've been to Vineland, I'm
         G+G
A augmentedA feather on the breeze