Key: D major
Verse 1
Fm
F
Well, back when this earth was
Eb
F
a silver blue jewel
Eb
F
's fathers were young
G
C
Pulling up fish from the sea
African slavery trade
New
Bedford and codfish for
Maine
Eb
Fm
wall that will always
F
remain
Oh, the crown and the cross,
the musket and the chain,
The white man's religion,
the family name,
Two hundred years later, and
who is to blame?
The captain or the cargo,
Eb
Fm
or the juice of the sugarcane?
Dore man,
Eb
F
he knows when the riptides will run
Eb
F
He sets out his net and he waits in the sun
Dm
F
He thinks of his fam
C
F
ily and drinks of his
rum
G
C
And he waits for the codfish to come
F
It can swallow you up, it can let you survive
It can heal you and steal you
and take you away
Db
F
Like a note in a bottle with nothing to say
Fm
F
Now back when this earth was
Eb
F
a silver blue jewel
Eb
F
's fathers were young
Dm
Bdim
Men of these shores
C
Bb
Ab
Pulling up fish from the sea.
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ChordsFm F Eb Bb Bdim...
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