Tobacco Island chords by Flogging Molly

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
    G+G             C majorC
All to hell, we must sail for the shores of sweet Barbados
     E minorEm                D MajorD
Where the sugar cane grows taller than the god we once believed in
  G+G                C majorC
The butcher and his crown raped the land we used to sleep in
   E minorEm                  D MajorD
Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes that haunt Tobacco Island


   E minorEm
'Twas 1659 forgotten now for sure
   G+G
They dragged us from our homeland with the musket and their gun
E minorEm
Cromwell and his roundheads battered all we knew
G+G
Shackled hopes of freedom, we're naught but stolen goods

D MajorD
Dark is the horizon

Blackened from the sun
A minorAm
This rotten cage of Bridgetown
DmDm
Is where I now belong

Chorus:
    G+G             C majorC
All to hell, we must sail for the shores of sweet Barbados
     E minorEm                D MajorD
Where the sugar cane grows taller than the god we once believed in
  G+G                C majorC
The butcher and his crown raped the land we used to sleep in
   E minorEm                  D MajorD
Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes that haunt Tobacco Island

Verse 2:
E minorEm
Red leg, down a peg, blistered burns the soul
  G+G
The floggings they're a plenty but reasons there are none
E minorEm
Our backs belong to landlords, where branded is there name
G+G
Paid for with ten shillings, cheap labor never breaks

D MajorD
The silver moon is shining

Cools the copper blood
     A minorAm
Where the living meet the dead
   DmDm
And together dance as one

Chorus:
    G+G             C majorC
All to hell, we must sail for the shores of sweet Barbados
     E minorEm                D MajorD
Where the sugar cane grows taller than the god we once believed in
  G+G                C majorC
The butcher and his crown raped the land we used to sleep in
   E minorEm                  D MajorD
Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes that haunt Tobacco Island

Bridge:
E minorEm A minorAm    E minorEm          A minorAm
Agony, will you cleanse this misery?
     E minorEm        A minorAm         DmDm
For it's never again I'll breathe the air of home
     E minorEm  A minorAm        E minorEm       A minorAm
From this sandy edge, the rolling sea breaks my revenge
     E minorEm         A minorAm      D MajorD
With each whisper a thousand waves, I hear roar

      E minorEm
I'm coming home

Instrumental:
E minorEm Em G+G G MajorG
E minorEm Em G+G G MajorG

Pre-Chorus:
D MajorD
Dark is the horizon

Blackened by the sun
A minorAm
This rotten cage of Bridgetown
DmDm
Is where I now belong

Chorus:
    G+G             C majorC
All to hell, we must sail for the shores of sweet Barbados
     E minorEm                D MajorD
Where the sugar cane grows taller than the god we once believed in
  G+G                C majorC
The butcher and his crown raped the land we used to sleep in
   E minorEm                  D MajorD
Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes that haunt Tobacco Island

    G+G             C majorC
All to hell, we must sail for the shores of sweet Barbados
     E minorEm                D MajorD
Where the sugar cane grows taller than the god we once believed in
  G+G                C majorC
The butcher and his crown raped the land we used to sleep in
   E minorEm                  D MajorD
Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes that haunt Tobacco Island

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