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Composer: Dave King, Matt Hensley, Nathen Maxwell, Bridget Regan, Bob Schmidt, George Schwindt, Dennis Casey

Flogging Molly - Tobacco Island lyrics



(Chorus)
All the hell we must sail
For the shores of sweet Barbados
Where the sugar can grows taller
Than the God we once believed in
Till the butcher and his crown
Raped the land we used to sleep in
Now tomorrow 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 knew
Shackled hopes of freedom
We're now but stolen goods
Darkens the horizon
Blackened from the sun
This rotten cage of Bridgetown
Is where I now belong

(Chorus)

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

(Chorus)
Songs list of album: Within a Mile of Home (2004)
         Title Rating
01   Screaming at the Wailing Wall lyrics   -
02   The Seven Deadly Sins lyrics   -
03   Factory Girls lyrics   -
04   To Youth (My Sweet Roisin Dubh) lyrics   -
05   Whistles the Wind lyrics   -
06   The Light of a Fading Star lyrics   -
07   Tobacco Island lyrics   -
08   The Wrong Company lyrics   -
09   Tomorrow Comes a Day Too Soon lyrics   -
10   Queen Anne's Revenge lyrics   -
11   The Wanderlust lyrics   -
12   Within a Mile of Home lyrics   -
13   The Spoken Wheel lyrics   -
14   With a Wonder and a Wild Desire lyrics   -
15   Don't Let Me Die Still Wondering lyrics   -
 

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