[Bass Intro]
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E    G A            D  A   D  A   E    G  A  D  A  D  A
Here I stand in the middle of the land
E    G A            D  A   D  A   E    G  A  D  A  D  A
Take my hand in the middle of the land

E      G       A            D          E       G   A   D
You'll see something that's new in the sunshine
E      G       A            D          E       G   A   D
You'll be the winter that's turning to springtime

Here I stand in the middle of the land
Take my hand in the middle of the land

E   G   A            D          E       G   A   D
Someday someone will try to confuse you
E       G          A           D                E       G   A   D
They'll say things you want to hear and they'll use you

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D -2~--------------------------------------------------------------
   I thought we'd live and learn, but some folks seem to yearn

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B ----12--12--12--12--12--14--
G ----12--12--12--12--12--14--
D ----12--12--12--12--12--14--
  For values unsophisticated

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D -2~--------------------------------------------------------------
  Those days are dead and gone, I won't wish them back upon

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B ---12--12--12--12--12--14--
G ---12--12--12--12--12--14--
D ---12--12--12--12--12--14--
    A world that's much more complicated

Here I stand in the middle of the land
Take my hand in the middle of the land
Here I stand in the middle of the land
Take my hand, I'm always glad to lend a hand

They'll try to blind you with T.V. religion
Don't buy their hand-me-down second - opinions
Sometimes the biggest lies
Are most easily disguised,
Dressed up like the Road To Glory,
Then somewhere down the line
You will rub your eyes and find
You're on a path to your own Purgatory

You'll know something as old as the moonlight,
You'll throw superstition and fear away tonight
They'll paint us black and white,
They'll paint us wrong and right,
They'll paint us all into a corner
They'll try to cool us down
But they could never fool us now
We're steamed up hotter than a Swedish Sauna!

Here I stand in the middle of the land
Take my, take my hand - your horizons will expand
Here I stand in the middle, middle of the land
Land - in the middle, middle of the land
(Land on me)

Copyright EMI Music Publishing; reprinted with kind permission.

Transcribed by Brad Launikonis

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