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Flogging Molly - Tobacco Island Lyrics

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  • [Chorus]
  • All to hell we must sail
  • For the shores of sweet Barbados
  • Where the sugar cane grows taller
  • Than the god we once believed in
  • Till the butcher and his crown
  • Raped the land we used to sleep in
  • Now tommorow chimes of ghostly crimes
  • That haunt Tobacco Island
  • 'Twas 1659 forgotten now for sure
  • They dragged us from our homeland
  • With the musket and their gun
  • Cromwell and his roundheads
  • Battered all we knew
  • Shackled hopes of freedom
  • We're now but stolen goods
  • Darkens the horizon
  • Blackened from the sun
  • This rotten cage of Bridgetown
  • Is where I now belong
  • [Chorus]
  • Red leg down a peg
  • Blistered burns the soul
  • The floggings they're a plenty
  • But reasons there are none
  • Our backs belong to landlords
  • Where branded is their name
  • Paid for with ten shillings
  • Cheap labor never breaks
  • The silver moon is shinin'
  • Cools the copper blood
  • Where the livin' meet the dead
  • And together dance as one
  • [Chorus]
  • Agony, will you cleanse this misery?
  • For it's never again i'll breathe
  • The air of home
  • From this sandy edge
  • The rolling sea breaks my revenge
  • With each whisper a thousand waves
  • I hear roar
  • I'm coming home
  • Dark is the horizon
  • Blackened by the sun
  • This rotten cage of Bridgetown
  • Is where I now belong
  • [Chorus x2]

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