Flogging Molly – Tobacco Island (Ukulele)

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[Verse]
Bb
And 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 tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes

      Gm  N.C.
That haunt Tobacco Island

  Gm
Twas 1 9 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

        Bb
And 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 tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes

      Gm  N.C.
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

        Bb
And 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 tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes

      Gm  N.C.
That haunt Tobacco Island

Bb Gm              Bb           Gm
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