[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Vineland, New Jersey, farm land stretching
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Far as the eye can see
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Not much down there, but sun-scorched pastures in
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Nineteen-fifty-three
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The war is over, they came searching
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For a place to be
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They left the Rhineland, they lost their homeland, and
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All their family
[Chorus]
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Like feathers on the ocean breeze
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They went spinning and tumbling 'cross the sea
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Never known where they'd come down
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Or who they'd be
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Like heather on the hillside
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They were bruised and they were battered by the breeze
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Searching for a place
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To be free
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
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Sun burn summers and frostbite winter
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Kids were plainly dressed
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Left the farmhouse when he was old enough, and
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Headed out west
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From California to Southern Africa
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And all the way to France
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And on to England to meet my mother in
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Nineteen-eighty-one
[Chorus]
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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
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Or who he'd be
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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
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To be free
[Bridge]
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Oh, and like a seed
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That is flying in the wind
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In search of water, soil, and sun
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And the birds and the bees
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To have it all along
[Verse 3]
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Now here I am, thirty-three years down
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Two-thousand-seventeen
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I've seen the Rhineland, I've been to Vineland, I'm
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