Off to hell we must sail for the shores of sweet Barbados
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Where the sugar cane grows taller than the God we once believed in
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The butcher and his crown raped the land we used to sleep in
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Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes that haunt Tobacco Island
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'Twas 1659 forgotten now for sure
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They dragged us from our homeland wit' their musket and their gun
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Cromwell and his roundheads battered all we knew
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Shackled hopes of freedom; we're now but stolen goods
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Dark is the horizon, blackened from the sun
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This rotten cage of Bridgetown is where I now belong
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Off to hell we must sail for the shores of sweet Barbados
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Where the sugar cane grows taller than the God we once believed in
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The butcher and his crown raped the land we used to sleep in
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Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes that haunt Tobacco Island
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Red leg down a peg blistered burns the soul
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The floggings they're a plenty but reasons there are none
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Our backs belong to landlords where branded is thier name
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Paid for with ten shillings cheap labor never breaks
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The silver moon is shinin', cools the copper blood
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Where the livin' meet the dead and together dance as one
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Off to hell we must sail for the shores of sweet Barbados
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Where the sugar cane grows taller than the God we once believed in
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The butcher and his crown raped the land we used to sleep in
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Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes that haunt Tobacco Island
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Agony,
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will you cleanse this misery?
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For it's never again I'll breathe the air of home
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From this sandy edge
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The rolling sea breaks my revenge
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With each whisper a thousand waves I hear roar
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I'm coming home
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Dark is the horizon
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Blackened by the sun
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This rotten cage of Bridgetown
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Is where I now belong
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Off to hell we must sail for the shores of sweet Barbados
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Where the sugar cane grows taller than the God we once believed in
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The butcher and his crown raped the land we used to sleep in
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Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes that haunt Tobacco Island (x2)
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Tobacco
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| Flogging Molly |
