Home Of The Estranged Chords
Home Of The Estranged by Corey Kilgannon is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D, D7 and Cm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verso 1:
G C
Oh give me a home where we aren’t so alone
G D
Where the black and the white children play
G C
Where seldom is heard an offhand racial slur
G D G
And my Muslim sisters feel safe
G
Home of the estranged
D7
Where the white and the black children play
G C
Some peace is preferred, let the county lines blur
G D G
And the preachers hold hands with the gays
Verso 2:
G C
Corporate motives are pure, politicians stay free
G D
Of corruption and work to better our lives
G C
Liberals beggin for change, politely from the stage
G D G
The vice president nods and he smiles
G C
The natives of our land, we so brutally banned
G D
From the beauty they were born into first
G C
It’s been 200 years, since that damn trail of tears
G D G
Yet we still hate them for loving the earth
G
Home of the estranged
D7
Human life is not a resource to trade
G C
It is not so absurd, to hear out the perturbed
G D G
We all see the same things different ways
Verso 3:
G C
How often at night, stumbling bodega bright
G D
Neon lights burn like synthetic stars
G C
Bums ponder below, spare a quarter or so?
G D G
Does their wisdom exceed that of ours?
G C
Pick a blue lotus flower from this dear land of ours
G D
If it helps you start to hear people cry
G C
On a child to annoint, or you can lace it in your joint
G D G
I wish everyone felt just as high
G
Home of the estranged
D7
Where no one has to wake up afraid
G C
There’s a love we could learn, that would cover the world
G D G
I believe it’ll happen someday
Outro
G C Cm
There’s a love we could learn, that would cover the world
G D C G
I believe it’ll happen someday