Gno3 G Gno3 G C/G Dno3/G C/G Dno3/G [ / / / / ][ / / / / ][ / / / / ][ / / / / ] Gno3 G Gno3 G C/G Dno3/G And the coal trucks come runnin' with their bellies full of coal C/G Dno3/G And their big wheels a-hummin' down Gno3 G Gmaj7 This road that lies open like the soul of the woman C/G Dno3/G C/G Dno3/G Who hid the spies who were lookin' for the land of the milk and the honey G2 G2/B C2 Dadd4 And this road she is a woman, she was made from a rib cut from the C2 Dadd4 G2 Sides of these mountains of these great sleeping Adams who are G2/B C2 Dadd4 C2 Dadd4 Lonely even here in paradise, lonely for somebody to kiss them C2maj7 G/B Am7 And I'll sing my song, and I'll sing my song C2 G D/G G In the land of my sojourn G C2 Dadd4 And the lady in the harbor she still holds her torch C2 Dadd4 G2 G2/B Out to those huddled masses who are yearning for freedom that still eludes them C2 Dadd4 C2 Dadd4 The immigant's children see their brightest dreams shattered G2 G2/B C2 Dadd4 Here on the New Jersey shoreline in the greed and the glitter of those C2 Dadd4 G2 G2/B High-tech casinos, but some mendicants wander off into a cathedral C2 Dadd4 C2 Dadd4 And they stoop in the silence and there their prayers are still whispered C2 G/B Am7 And I'll sing their song, and I'll sing their song C2 In the land of my sojourn Em Bm7 Nobody tells you when you get born here C2 D How much you'll come to love it C2/E D And how you'll never belong here so I'll Em2 Bm7 Call you my country and I'll be lonely for my home C2 Am7 And I wish that I could take you there with me And down the brown brick spine of some dirty blind alley All those drainpipes were drippin' out the last Sons of Thunder While off in the distance the smokestacks were belching back this city's best answer And the countryside was pocked with all of those mailpouch posters Thrown up on the rotting sideboards of these rundown stables Like the one that Christ was born in when the old world started dying And the new world started coming on And I'll sing His song, and I'll sing His song In the land of my sojourn G2 C2/E D C2/E D [ / / / / ][ / / / / ][ / / / / ][ / / / / ] In the land of my G2 C2/E D C2/E D [ / / / / ][ / / / / ][ / / / / ][ / / / / ] sojourn and I will sing his song, in the land of my G C/G Dno3/G C/G Dno3/G G2no3 [ / / / / ][ / / / / ][ / / / / ][ / / / / ][ / / / / ] so - journ
Words and music by Rich Mullins and Beaker
© 1993 Edward Grant, Inc. (ASCAP) / Kid Brothers of St. Frank
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