C G D G [Verse 1]G C If you go down to the water, and look out to seaG C D There will be a ship sailing, away on the breezeG C G She is heading for America, and that's where I'll beC G D G For the tide it is turning, for this land in me [Verse 2]G C There's no end to the darkness, a blight on the landG C D We are drowning in hardship, no place for a manG C G With a dream that will take him, to where the wind blowsC G D G I can't pay the middleman, so I must go [Chorus]D G With rain in my heart, sun on my backC D There's a new world that's waiting for meC G C We've been praying for a miracle, and that's what we'll seeC G D G When we're sailing to America, the land of the free [Verse 3]G C There are many there before us, who with open armsG C D Will give every hope to a man who works hardG C There'll be others who hate us, and do as they pleaseC G D G But anything is better than this place on it's knees [Chorus]D G With rain in my heart, sun on my backC D There's a new world that's waiting for meC G C We've been praying for a miracle, and that's what we'll seeG C D G When we're sailing to America, the land of the free [Bridge]Em D C G There'll be some that will great us like dust in the windEm A D "Go back now to where you came from"Em D C G And I'm told that they'll treat us like pigs in a penAm D G C G C G D G So I know that I must be strong, I must be strong [Chorus]D G With rain in my heart, sun on my backC D To the new world that's waiting for meC G C We've been praying for a miracle, and that's what we'll seeG C D Em When we're sailing to America, the land of the freeG C D G C G C G We'll be sailing to America, the land of the freeD G The land of the free...
The Land Of The Free
Chris De Burgh
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