I Was Born and I Was Born Here

 

A                     E           

I was born I was born here

D 

I’m a threat to no body

                              A

And I want no body to fear

 

A                       B      E             A      B      E        

The night was full of bombs the day was full of fear 

A                 B                   E                   A                    E

My Grandmother and my Uncles had been dead for half a year 

A                                               E               D                       A    

It was dark as he waded through the river my father strapped to his chest 

C7                    B7                     G#°             A °

the water was like cutting steel wet the bottom of his vest 

A                      E                     D                               A 

A single shot rang out then bullets split air from the Southwest 

C7                     B7                                           G#°

I’ve been alive for twenty five years and I think that is why 

 DMaj7 Db         Em7                  A7 

I never heard my grandfather complaining

A                  B              E            A           B        E     

Even when the times were hard and people were so spiteful 

         A                           B      E                          A                                 E              

He would turn his head towards them and smile he’d give them an eyeful  

A                            E                             D                 A       

He forged the raging river and walked the mine field the otherside

C7                                      B7                          G#°         A°             G#°

He hitched a ride to near the boarder and managed to slip passed the guards 

             DMaj7 Db’                              Em7                A7                 A          

How ? He said I’ll never know I was never so surprised to be alive 

 

A           B      E                A              B                  E         

So a new life among freedom loving people 

         A                   B      E                        A                        E                 

No Mosque where he could pray so he happily shared the steeple 

 A                E                                     D           A         

My father grow and went to school and then into the army 

C7                B7                           G#°              A°

My mother was the prettiest of girls he met at a birthday party 

A           E                            D                           A 

So I was born into this land I know no other country 

C7                                      B7                                 G#° 

My skin a little darker than some of my friends and colleagues 

DMaj7                           Db             Em7           A7

But I speak my mothers tongue and English too

A           B          E                    A              B            E

Many friends since we were five have shared in many intrigues 

A             B                   E              A             E

Yet it seems for a some people I am the foreigner 

A                          E                 D                     A      

For those few no matter how I work I am always the outsider 

C7                             B7                              G#°         A°          G#° 

That’s their problem but I wish they had a deeper sense of meaning

DMaj7 Db              Em7                                         A7            A        

I think they would walk by an injured man even if he was bleeding 

 

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