Flogging Molly - Tobacco island
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BbAnd to hell we must sail
For the Shores of sweet Barbados
Where the sGmugar cane grows taller
Than the god we once believed in
Till the bBbutcher and his crown
Raped the land we used to sleep in
Now tGmomorrow chimes of ghostly crFimes
That hGmauntN.C. Tobacco Island
TwGmas 1 9 forgotten now for sure
They dBbragged us from our homeland
With the musket and their gun
CrGmomwell and his roundheads
Battered all we know
ShBbackled hopes of freedom
We're now but stolen goods
DFarken the horizon
Blackened from the sun
This rAmotten cage of Bridgetown
Is Cwhere I now belong
And to hBbell we must sail
For the Shores of sweet Barbados
Where the sGmugar cane grows taller
Than the god we once believed in
Till the bBbutcher and his crown
Raped the land we used to sleep in
Now tGmomorrow chimes of ghostly crFimes
That hGmauntN.C. Tobacco Island
GmRed leg down a peg
Blistered burns the soul
The fBbloggings they're a plenty
But reasons there are none
Our bGmacks belong to landlords
Where branded is there name
PBbaid for with ten shillings
Cheap labor never breaks
The sFilver moon is shinin'
Cools the copper blood
Where the lAmivin' meet the dead
And Ctogether dance as one
And to hBbell we must sail
For the Shores of sweet Barbados
Where the sGmugar cane grows taller
Than the god we once believed in
Till the bBbutcher and his crown
Raped the land we used to sleep in
Now tGmomorrow chimes of ghostly crFimes
That hGmauntN.C. Tobacco Island
BbAg-Gmony will you cleBbanse this misGmery
For it's neBbver again I'll brGmeathe
The air of hFome
From this sBbandy eGmdge
The rolling Bbsea breaks my rGmevenge
With each whBbisper a thousand wGmaves
I hear rFoar
I'm coming home