Farmland stretching

Far as the eye can see

Not much down there but

Sun scorched pastures in 1953

The war's over and they came searching

For a place to be

Left the Rheinland they lost their homeland and all their family

Like feathers on the ocean breeze

They went spinning and tumbling across the sea

Never know where they'll come down

Or who'll they be

Like Heather on the hillside

They where bruised and they where battered by the breeze

Searching for a place to be free

Sunburn summer frostbite Winter

Kids were plainly dressed

Left the farmhouse when he was old enough

Headed out west from California

to southern Africa, and all the way to France

And aren't you England to meet my mother in 1981

A feather on the ocean breeze

He went spinning and tumbling across the sea

Never knowing when he'd come down

Or who he'll be

Like Heather on the hillside

He was bruised and he was battered by the breeze

Searching for a place to be free

Oh like a seed that is flying in the

wind in search of water, soil and sun

And the birds and the bees to have it all along

Now here I am 33 years done 2017

Seen the Rheinland I've been to vineland I'm a feather on the breeze