DGEmADG verse 1 D Vineland, New Jersey, farm land stretching G Far as the eye can see EmA Not much down there, but sun-scorched pastures in DG Nineteen-fifty-three D The war is over, they came searching G For a place to be EmA They left the Rhineland, they lost their homeland, and DG All their family AG Like feathers on the ocean breeze BmAD They went spinning and tumbling 'cross the sea EmGA Never known where they'd come down D Or who they'd be AG Like heather on the hillside BmAD They were bruised and they were battered by the breeze EmGA Searching for a place D To be free Instrumental DGEmADG verse 2 D Sun burn summers and frostbite winter G Kids were plainly dressed EmA Left the farmhouse when he was old enough, and DG Headed out west D From California to Southern Africa G And all the way to France EmA And on to England to meet my mother in DG Nineteen-eighty-one AG A feather on the ocean breeze BmAD He went spinning and tumbling 'cross the sea EmGA Never known where he'd come down D Or who he'd be AG Like heather on the hillside BmAD He was bruised and he was battered by the breeze EmGA Searching for a place D To be free Bridge G Oh, and like a seed A# That is flying in the wind DABm In search of water, soil, and sun EmE And the birds and the bees AA4A To have it all along verse 3 D Now here I am, thirty-three years down G Two-thousand-seventeen EmAD I've seen the Rhineland, I've been to Vineland, I'm G A feather on the breeze