[Intro] D G Em A D G [Verse 1] D Vineland, New Jersey, farm land stretching G Far as the eye can see Em A Not much down there, but sun-scorched pastures in D G Nineteen-fifty-three D The war is over, they came searching G For a place to be Em A They left the Rhineland, they lost their homeland, and D G All their family [Chorus] A G Like feathers on the ocean breeze Bm A 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 D They were bruised and they were battered by the breeze Em G A Searching for a place D To be free [Instrumental] D G Em A D G [Verse 2] D Sun burn summers and frostbite winter G Kids were plainly dressed Em A Left the farmhouse when he was old enough, and D G Headed out west D From California to Southern Africa G And all the way to France Em A And on to England to meet my mother in D G Nineteen-eighty-one [Chorus] A G a feather on the ocean breeze Bm A 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 D He was bruised and he was battered by the breeze Em G A Searching for a place D To be free [Bridge] G Oh, and like a seed A# That is flying in the wind D A Bm In search of water, soil, and sun Em E And the birds and the bees A Asus4 A To have it all along [Verse 3] D Now here I am, thirty-three years down G Two-thousand-seventeen Em A D I've seen the Rhineland, I've been to Vineland, I'm G a feather on the breeze
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