James Taylor – Sugar Trade (Guitar)
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Word and Music by James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett and Timothy Mayer from James Taylor's 1981 album,
"Dad Loves His Work."
[Verse 1]
D G C D Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel G C D And back when your grandfather's fathers were young Bm E A D Men of these shores made and gave up their lives Bm E A Pulling up fish from the sea
[Verse 2]
D C/D While down in the African slavery trade D C/D Stealing young men to cut sugar cane D C G/B C D Rum to New Bedford and codfish from Maine C Bb C D They were building a wall that will always remain
[Verse 3]
C/D Oh, the crown and the cross, the musket and the chain D C/D The white man's religion, the family name D C G/B C D Two hundred years later and who is to blame? C Bb C D The captain or the cargo or the juice of the sugar cane?
[Verse 4]
D G C D The doryman he knows when the riptides will run G C D He sets out his nets and he waits in the sun Bm E A D He thinks of his family and drinks of his rum Bm E A And he waits for the codfish to come
[Verse 5]
D C/D It's the same goddamn ocean that keeps them alive D C/D It will swallow you up, it will let you survive D C G/B C D It will heal you and steal you and take you away C Bb C D Like a note in a bottle with nothing to say
[Verse 6]
D G C D Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel G C D Back when your grandfather's fathers were young Bm E A D Men of these shores made and gave up their lives Bm E A Em/G Dm/F G D Pulling up fish from the sea