Intro
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F C
C G
F C
[Chorus 1]
C G F C
I'm cutting up her pure white dress
C G
That I dyed red
F C
That I dyed red
C G F C
I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
C G F C
What time erases and memory mocks
C Em F C
I'll send them over the ocean foam
A Dm Em F G C
Right into those gentle European homes
[Verse 1]
C Dm
The slave ship "Blessing" slipped from Liverpool
G C E
Over the waves the Royal Navy rules
Am Dm
To go and plunder the Kingdom of Benin
Am E7 Am
Where certain history ends and shame begins
C Dm
Dahomey traders paid in powder and shot
G C E
Line up their prisoners and they sell them in lots
Am Dm
They packed them tight inside those coffin ships
A Dm Em F G C
And they took them to the brand new world of auction blocks and whips
[Chorus 2]
C G F C
I'm cutting up her pure white dress
C G
That I dyed red
F C
That I dyed red
C G F C
I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
C G F C
What time erases and memory mocks
C Em F C
I'll send them over the ocean foam
A Dm Em F G C
Right into those gentle European homes
[Verse 2]
C Dm
White is the sheet on your fine linen bed
G C E
The blood stained red on each cotton thread
Am Dm
The merchants gather at St. George's Hall
A Dm Em F G C
To unveil the kneeling slave who is carved upon the wall
C Dm
So picture the scene on the old Salt House docks
G C E
Where they loaded the iron shackles and locks
Am Dm
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]
C G F C
So, I sing the praises of God's glory
C G F C
As a blue cetacean floats in the basement
C Em F C
An elephant on the second story
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And they queue all day to see him
G C
In my American Museum
C G F C
But the Lord will judge us, with fire and thunder
C G F C
As man continues with all his blunders
C Em
It's only money
F C
It's only numbers
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Maybe it is time to put aside these fictitious wonders
C G
And man is feeble
F C
Man is puny
C G F C
And if it should divide the Union
C Em F C
There is no man who should own another
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When he can't even recognize his sister and his brother
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