Homeland Refugee The Flatlanders
Homeland Refugee
By The Flatlanders
Butch Hancock, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore
7/18/2009
With a [C]backpack full of yesterdays
On a [Bb]freeway full of smoke and haze
Where the [C]power lines and fault lines double [Dm]cross
I [C]left our yellow porch light on
No [Bb]one will notice no one�??s home
And [C]no one else will notice what was [Dm]lost
I lost my home when the deal went bust
To the so-called security and trust
I planned my life the way they said I should
I sent my wife and kids ahead
I�??m right behind you, so I said
I�??ll be there when I get there if that�??s good
Chorus:
Now I�??[F]m leaving Ca[G]lifornia for th[C]e dust bowl
They [F]took it all, there�??[G]s nowhere else t[C]o go
The [F]pastures of plenty are [C]burning [C/B]by the [Am]sea
[F]I�??m just [Dm]a homeland re[G]fugee
[3]There�??s a plastic sack by a barbwire fence
A burned out beer truck full of dents
A dried up stock pond by an old can*l
Between the towns the desert sands
Filling up with empty cans
Container trains, casinos and can*ls
Chorus
My Grandpa used to tell about
The way the bankers drove them out
In the wind and the dust in the crash of �??29
They crossed the desert headed west
They swore that it was for the best
They reassured the ones they left behind
There�??s some refugees from Mexico
Behind an abandoned Texaco
We nod and smile, it�??s clear we�??re all the same
For everything this world is worth
We�??re all just migrants on this earth
Returning to the dust from where we came
Chorus
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