Intro
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[Chorus 1]
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I'm cutting up her pure white dress
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That I dyed red
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That I dyed red
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I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
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What time erases and memory mocks
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I'll send them over the ocean foam
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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
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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
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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]
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I'm cutting up her pure white dress
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That I dyed red
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That I dyed red
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I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
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What time erases and memory mocks
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I'll send them over the ocean foam
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Right into those gentle European homes
[Verse 2]
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White is the sheet on your fine linen bed
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The blood stained red on each cotton thread
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The merchants gather at St. George's Hall
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To unveil the kneeling slave who is carved upon the wall
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So picture the scene on the old Salt House docks
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Where they loaded the iron shackles and locks
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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
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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
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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 B)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Elvis Costello - Red Cotton Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar B)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan