Tobacco Island

	  		                               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