To Be Free chords by Passenger

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: D

Difficulty: Novice

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