Tobacco Island chords by Flogging Molly

Guitar chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)


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

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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 E minorEm G+G G+G
E minorEm E minorEm G+G G+G


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