Tobacco-Flogging Molly

[ti:Tobacco] [ar:Flogging Molly] [al:Within a Mile of Home] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tobacco - Flogging Molly [00:06.40]All to hell we must sail [00:07.81]For the shores of sweet Barbados [00:09.40]Where the sugar cane grows taller [00:10.98]Than the God we once believed in [00:12.81]Till the butcher and his crown [00:14.32]Raped the land we used to sleep in [00:16.09]Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes [00:17.78]That haunt Tobacco Island [00:19.29] [00:32.38]'Twas 1659 forgotten now for sure [00:35.39]They dragged us from our homeland [00:37.08]With the musket and their gun [00:38.84]Cromwell and his roundheads [00:40.51]Battered all we knew [00:41.88]Shackled hopes of freedom [00:43.56]We're now but stolen goods [00:45.41]Darkens the horizon [00:47.00]Blackened from the sun [00:48.43]This rotten cage of Bridgetown [00:50.27]Is where I now belong [00:51.65]All to hell we must sail [00:53.26]For the shores of sweet Barbados [00:54.77]Where the sugar cane grows taller [00:56.52]Than the God we once believed in [00:58.11]Till the butcher and his crown [00:59.70]Raped the land we used to sleep in [01:01.33]Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes [01:03.18]That haunt Tobacco Island [01:04.43] [01:11.39]Red leg down a peg [01:13.15]Blistered burns the soul [01:14.61]The floggings they're a plenty [01:16.19]But reasons there are none [01:17.83]Our backs belong to landlords [01:19.37]Where branded is there name [01:20.94]Paid for with ten shillings [01:22.64]Cheap labor never breaks [01:24.12]The silver moon is shinin' [01:25.81]Cools the copper blood [01:27.30]Where the livin' meet the dead [01:28.85]And together dance as one [01:30.66]All to hell we must sail [01:32.12]For the shores of sweet Barbados [01:33.81]Where the sugar cane grows taller [01:35.48]Than the God we once believed in [01:37.11]Till the butcher and his crown [01:38.54]Raped the land we used to sleep in [01:40.24]Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes [01:42.17]That haunt Tobacco Island [01:43.80]Agony [01:46.09] [01:46.70]Will you cleanse this misery [01:49.04] [01:49.97]For it's never again I'll breathe [01:52.87]The air of home [01:54.29] [01:56.43]From this sandy edge [01:59.57]The rolling sea breaks my revenge [02:02.32] [02:02.93]With each whisper a thousand waves I hear roar [02:07.78] [02:08.40]I'm coming home [02:09.50] [02:35.40]Dark is the horizon [02:37.13]Blackened by the sun [02:38.68]This rotten cage of Bridgetown [02:40.50]Is where I now belong [02:42.58] [02:43.50]All to hell we must sail [02:45.15]For the shores of sweet Barbados [02:46.63]Where the sugar cane grows taller [02:48.41]Than the God we once believed in [02:50.25]Till the butcher and his crown [02:51.55]Raped the land we used to sleep in [02:53.23]Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes [02:55.12]That haunt Tobacco Island [02:56.65]All to hell we must sail [02:58.09]For the shores of sweet Barbados [02:59.72]Where the sugar cane grows taller [03:01.16]Than the God we once believed in [03:02.90]Till the butcher and his crown [03:04.66]Raped the land we used to sleep in [03:06.35]Now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes [03:08.76]That haunt Tobacco Island