Tobacco Island

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Bb
And to hell we must sail

For the Shores of sweet Barbados
           Gm
Where the sugar cane grows taller

Than the god we once believed in
          Bb
Till the butcher and his crown

Raped the land we used to sleep in
     Gm                          F
Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes
      Gm  N.C.
That haunt Tobacco Island


  Gm
'Twas 1659 forgotten now for sure
      Bb
They dragged us from our homeland

With the musket and their gun
  Gm
Cromwell and his roundheads

Battered all we know
  Bb
Shackled hopes of freedom

We're now but stolen goods
 F
Darken the horizon
 
Blackened from the sun
      Am
This rotten cage of Bridgetown
   C
Is where I now belong


        Bb
And to hell we must sail

For the Shores of sweet Barbados
           Gm
Where the sugar cane grows taller

Than the god we once believed in
          Bb
Till the butcher and his crown

Raped the land we used to sleep in
     Gm                          F
Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes
      Gm  N.C.
That haunt Tobacco Island


Gm
Red leg down a peg

Blistered burns the soul
     Bb
The floggings they're a plenty

But reasons there are none
     Gm
Our backs belong to landlords

Where branded is there name
 Bb
Paid for with ten shillings

Cheap labor never breaks
     F
The silver moon is shinin'

Cools the copper blood
           Am
Where the livin' meet the dead
    C
And together dance as one


        Bb
And to hell we must sail

For the Shores of sweet Barbados
           Gm
Where the sugar cane grows taller

Than the god we once believed in
          Bb
Till the butcher and his crown

Raped the land we used to sleep in
     Gm                          F
Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes
      Gm  N.C.
That haunt Tobacco Island


Bb Gm              Bb           Gm
Ag-ony, will you cleanse this misery?
           Bb               Gm
For it's never again I'll breathe
            F
The air of home
           Bb    Gm
From this sandy edge
            Bb             Gm
The rolling sea breaks my revenge
            Bb                Gm
With each whisper a thousand waves
        F
I hear roar

I'm coming home