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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[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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