Year: 1998 - Album: The Essential Iron Maiden
Written by Steve Harris
Intro: Am G D F G Am x3 Am F D F G Am F G D F G Am Am G D Am G D F C G D Am Am Wake alone in the hills With the wind in your face It feels good to be proud And be free and a race G That is part of a clan D And to live on highlands Am And the air that you breathe So pure and so clean G D When alone on the hills F C With the wind in your hair G D With a longing to feel Am Just to be free Am Is it right to believe In the need to be free It's a time when you die And without asking why G Can't you see what they do D They are grinding us down Am They are taking our land That belongs to the clans G D Not alone with a dream F C Just want to be free G D With a need to belong Am I am a clansman Em C G Freedom Em C G Freedom Em C G Freedom Am C D Freedom Am It's a time wrought with fear It's a land wrought with change Ancestors could hear What is happening now G They would turn in their graves D They would all be ashamed Am That the land of the free Has been written in chains G D And I know what I want F C When the timing is right G D Then I'll take what is mine Am I am the clansman Am And I swear to defend And we'll fight to the end And I swear that I'll never Be taken alive G And I know that we'll stand D And we'll fight for our land Am And I swear that my bairns Will be born free G D And I know what I want F C When the timing is right G D Then I'll take what is mine Am I am the clansman Em C G Freedom Em C G Freedom Em C G Freedom Am C D Freedom Instrumetal part (listen to the song for timing) Am F G Am Am F G D F G Am Am Em G C D C G D Em x4 Em C G Em C G Em C G Am C D Am G D Am G D F C G D Am Am No, no we can't let them take anymore G D No we can't let them take anymore Am We've the land of the free (x2) Am No, no we can't let them take anymore G D No we can't let them take anymore F G No we can't let them take anymore Am We've the land of the free Am G D Am Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh... x2 Am G D F G Am Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh... Em G C G D x4 Em C G Freedom Em C G Freedom Em C G Freedom Am C D Freedom Am Is it right to believe In the need to be free It's a time when you die And without asking why G Can't you see what they do D They are grinding us down Am They are taking our land That belongs to the clans G D Not alone with a dream F C Just want to be free G D With a need to belong Am I am a clansman G D And I know what I want F C When the timing is right G D Then I'll take what is mine Am I am the clansman Em C G Freedom Em C G Freedom Em C G Freedom Am C D Freedom Am G D Am G D And I know what I want F C When the timing is right G D Then I'll take what is mine Am I am the clansman
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