Flogging Molly Lyrics

Album: Within A Mile Of Home

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

 

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 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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