Welcome home    (video)

 

    Em - D - G     - Am - G - D (2x)

 

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1.       Tonight I am feeling for you under the state of a strange land,

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     you have sacrificed much to be here,

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    there for the graces I offer my hand.

 

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    We.......lcome home,        I bid you welcome, I bid you welcome.

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    Wel......come home         from the bottom of my heart.

 

+ G - C - G - C (2x)

 

    Em        D    G                               Am          G                   D

2.      And out here on the edge the empire is fading by the day,

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    and the world is so weary in war, maybe we’ll find that new way ?

 

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    So we......lcome home,        see, I made a space for you now,

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    we......lcome home        from the bottom of our hearts,

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    we......lcome home       from the bottom of our hearts.

 

+ G - C - D - C (2x)

 

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    Keep it coming now, keep it coming now,

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    you’ll find most of us here with our hearts wide open.

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    Keep it coming now, keep it coming now,

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    keep it coming now, keep it coming now !

 

+ D - G - C    - G - Am - D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Em                   D                       G                       Am G    D

3.        There’s a woman with her hands trembling, haere mai,

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    and she sings with a mountain’s memory, haere mai.

 

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4.        There’s a cloud the full length of these isles,

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    just playing chase with the sun

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     and it’s black and it’s white and it’s wild, all the colours are one.

 

C       - G                        - D                      C

    We.......lcome home,       I bid you welcome, I bid you welcome.

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    We......lcome home       from the bottom of our hearts.

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    We…..lcome home,       see, I made a space for you now.

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    We…..lcome home       from the bottom of our hearts - - -

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    from the bottom of our hearts.

 

(orig. = capo 1st)    (Dave Dobbyn)