Intro
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[Chorus 1]
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I'm cutting up her pure white dress
A E
That I dyed red
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That I dyed red
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I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
A E D A
What time erases and memory mocks
A C#m D A
I'll send them over the ocean foam
F# Bm C#m D E A
Right into those gentle European homes
[Verse 1]
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The slave ship "Blessing" slipped from Liverpool
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Over the waves the Royal Navy rules
F#m Bm
To go and plunder the Kingdom of Benin
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Where certain history ends and shame begins
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Dahomey traders paid in powder and shot
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Line up their prisoners and they sell them in lots
F#m Bm
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]
A E D A
I'm cutting up her pure white dress
A E
That I dyed red
D A
That I dyed red
A E D A
I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
A E D A
What time erases and memory mocks
A C#m D A
I'll send them over the ocean foam
F# Bm C#m D E A
Right into those gentle European homes
[Verse 2]
A Bm
White is the sheet on your fine linen bed
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The blood stained red on each cotton thread
F#m Bm
The merchants gather at St. George's Hall
F# Bm C#m D E A
To unveil the kneeling slave who is carved upon the wall
A Bm
So picture the scene on the old Salt House docks
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Where they loaded the iron shackles and locks
F#m Bm
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]
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So, I sing the praises of God's glory
A E D A
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
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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
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And man is feeble
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Man is puny
A E D A
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 (Nada Dasar A#)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Elvis Costello - Red Cotton Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar A#)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan