Flogging Molly Tobacco Island Lyrics

Tobacco Island Lyrics



[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 know

Shackled hopes of freedom

We're now but stolen goods

Darken the horizon

Blackened from the sun

This rotten cage of Bridgetown

Is where I now belong



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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 there 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



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