To Be Free

	  		
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 

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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 

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A feather on the ocean breeze 
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He went spinning and tumbling 'cross the sea 
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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 
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He was bruised and he was battered by the breeze 
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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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A feather on the breeze