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