Intro
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C G
G D
C G
[Chorus 1]
G D C G
I'm cutting up her pure white dress
G D
That I dyed red
C G
That I dyed red
G D C G
I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
G D C G
What time erases and memory mocks
G Bm C G
I'll send them over the ocean foam
E Am Bm C D G
Right into those gentle European homes
[Verse 1]
G Am
The slave ship "Blessing" slipped from Liverpool
D G B
Over the waves the Royal Navy rules
Em Am
To go and plunder the Kingdom of Benin
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Where certain history ends and shame begins
G Am
Dahomey traders paid in powder and shot
D G B
Line up their prisoners and they sell them in lots
Em Am
They packed them tight inside those coffin ships
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And they took them to the brand new world of auction blocks and whips
[Chorus 2]
G D C G
I'm cutting up her pure white dress
G D
That I dyed red
C G
That I dyed red
G D C G
I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
G D C G
What time erases and memory mocks
G Bm C G
I'll send them over the ocean foam
E Am Bm C D G
Right into those gentle European homes
[Verse 2]
G Am
White is the sheet on your fine linen bed
D G B
The blood stained red on each cotton thread
Em Am
The merchants gather at St. George's Hall
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To unveil the kneeling slave who is carved upon the wall
G Am
So picture the scene on the old Salt House docks
D G B
Where they loaded the iron shackles and locks
Em Am
Between a sandstone crocodile, a barrel and a bale
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You will see the nameless faces they were offering for sale
[Chorus 3]
G D C G
So, I sing the praises of God's glory
G D C G
As a blue cetacean floats in the basement
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An elephant on the second story
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And they queue all day to see him
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In my American Museum
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But the Lord will judge us, with fire and thunder
G D C G
As man continues with all his blunders
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It's only money
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It's only numbers
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Maybe it is time to put aside these fictitious wonders
G D
And man is feeble
C G
Man is puny
G D C G
And if it should divide the Union
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There is no man who should own another
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When he can't even recognize his sister and his brother
- 1. Chord Gitar Elvis Costello - Red Cotton Kunci Dasar - Chords.id
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- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan