Intro
D A
G D
D A
G D
[Chorus 1]
D A G D
I'm cutting up her pure white dress
D A
That I dyed red
G D
That I dyed red
D A G D
I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
D A G D
What time erases and memory mocks
D F#m G D
I'll send them over the ocean foam
B Em F#m G A D
Right into those gentle European homes
[Verse 1]
D Em
The slave ship "Blessing" slipped from Liverpool
A D F#
Over the waves the Royal Navy rules
Bm Em
To go and plunder the Kingdom of Benin
Bm F#7 Bm
Where certain history ends and shame begins
D Em
Dahomey traders paid in powder and shot
A D F#
Line up their prisoners and they sell them in lots
Bm Em
They packed them tight inside those coffin ships
B Em F#m G A D
And they took them to the brand new world of auction blocks and whips
[Chorus 2]
D A G D
I'm cutting up her pure white dress
D A
That I dyed red
G D
That I dyed red
D A G D
I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
D A G D
What time erases and memory mocks
D F#m G D
I'll send them over the ocean foam
B Em F#m G A D
Right into those gentle European homes
[Verse 2]
D Em
White is the sheet on your fine linen bed
A D F#
The blood stained red on each cotton thread
Bm Em
The merchants gather at St. George's Hall
B Em F#m G A D
To unveil the kneeling slave who is carved upon the wall
D Em
So picture the scene on the old Salt House docks
A D F#
Where they loaded the iron shackles and locks
Bm Em
Between a sandstone crocodile, a barrel and a bale
B Em F#m G A D
You will see the nameless faces they were offering for sale
[Chorus 3]
D A G D
So, I sing the praises of God's glory
D A G D
As a blue cetacean floats in the basement
D F#m G D
An elephant on the second story
B Em F#m G
And they queue all day to see him
A D
In my American Museum
D A G D
But the Lord will judge us, with fire and thunder
D A G D
As man continues with all his blunders
D F#m
It's only money
G D
It's only numbers
B Em F#m G A D
Maybe it is time to put aside these fictitious wonders
D A
And man is feeble
G D
Man is puny
D A G D
And if it should divide the Union
D F#m G D
There is no man who should own another
B Em F#m G A D
When he can't even recognize his sister and his brother
- 1. Chord Gitar Elvis Costello - Red Cotton Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar F)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Elvis Costello - Red Cotton Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar F)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan