Tobacco Island ukulele

Tobacco Island

• Bb

                               chorus
         Bb
All 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 tommorow chimes of ghostly crimes
       Gm
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


                                Chorus
         Bb
All 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 tommorow chimes of ghostly crimes
       Gm
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


                                Chorus
         Bb
All 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 tommorow chimes of ghostly crimes
       Gm
That haunt Tobacco Island


Gm Bb              Gm           Bb
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

  F
Dark is the horizon
Blackened by the sun
       Am
This rotten cage of Bridgetown
     C
Is where I now belong


                                Chorus
         Bb
All 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 tommorow chimes of ghostly crimes
       Gm
That haunt Tobacco Island

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by Anonimous | 666over777

4/23/2014

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