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Elvis Costello - Red Cotton Lyrics

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  • I'm cutting up her pure white dress
  • That I dyed red
  • That I dyed red
  • I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
  • What time erases and memory mocks
  • I'll send them over the ocean foam
  • Right into those gentle European homes
  • The slave ship "Blessing" slipped from Liverpool
  • Over the waves the Royal Navy rules
  • To go and plunder the Kingdom of Benin
  • Where certain history ends and shame begins
  • Dahomey traders paid in powder and shot
  • Line up their prisoners and they sell them in lots
  • They packed them tight inside those coffin ships
  • And they took them to the brand new world of
  • Auction blocks and whips
  • I'm cutting up her pure white dress
  • That I dyed red
  • That I dyed red
  • I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
  • What time erases and memory mocks
  • I'll send them over the ocean foam
  • Right into those gentle European homes
  • White is the sheet on your fine linen bed
  • The blood stained red on each cotton thread
  • The merchants gather at St. George's Hall
  • To unveil the kneeling slave who is carved upon the wall
  • Picture the scene at the Old Salt House docks
  • Where they loaded the iron shackles and locks
  • Between a sandstone crocodile, a barrel and a bale
  • You will see the nameless faces they were offering for sale
  • So, I sing the praises of God's glory
  • As a blue cetacean floats in the basement
  • An elephant on the second storey
  • And they queue all day to see him
  • In my American Museum
  • But the Lord will judge us with fire and thunder
  • As man continues in all his blunders
  • It's only money
  • It's only numbers
  • Maybe it is time to put aside these fictitious wonders
  • But man is feeble
  • Man is puny
  • And if it should divide the Union
  • There is no man that should own another
  • When he can't even recognise his sister and his brother

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