Sugar chords by
Pappas
Pappas
Print

N/A2 views
Key: D major
Verse 1
F#m
F#m

F#
F#

Well, back when this earth was
E
E

F#
F#

a silver blue jew el
B
B

And back when your grandfather
E
E

F#
F#

's fathers were young
Cdim
Cdim

Men of these shores made
F#
F#

and gave of their lives
G#
G#

C#
C#

Pulling up fish from the sea
F#
F#

While down in the
African slavery trade
E
E

Stealing young men to cut sugarcane
F#
F#

Rum to
New
Bedford and codfish for
Maine
F#m
F#m

They were building a
E
E

F#m
F#m

wall that will always
F#
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,
E
E

F#m
F#m

or the juice of the sugarcane?
F#
F#

Oh, the
Dore man,
E
E

F#
F#

he knows when the riptides will run
E
E

F#
F#

He sets out his net and he waits in the sun
D#m
D#m

F#
F#

He thinks of his fam
C#
C#

F#
F#

ily and drinks of his
rum
G#
G#

C#
C#

And he waits for the cod fish to come
F#
F#

It's the same goddamn
B
B

ocean that keeps you alive
F#
F#

It can swallow you up, it can let you survive
It can heal you and steal you
and take you away
D
D

F#
F#

Like a note in a bottle with nothing to say
F#m
F#m

F#
F#

Now back when this earth was
E
E

F#
F#

a silver blue jew el
B
B

And back when your grandfather
E
E

F#
F#

's fathers were young
D#m
D#m

Cdim
Cdim

Men of these shores
F#
F#

made and gave of their lives
C#
C#

B
B

A
A

Pulling up fish from the sea.

How did you like the song?

You need to to leave a rating.
TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF#m F# E B Cdim...

More songs by Pappas

Discover chords for more songs to play

1 More

No results found

Related songs

Discover chords for more songs to play

800K+ More
Olivia Rodrigo

Drivers License

Olivia Rodrigo

4.8

The Cranberries

Zombie

The Cranberries

4.8

Junior H

Ella

Junior H

4.6

The Animals

The House Of The Rising Sun

The Animals

4.9

Queen

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Queen

4.7

Ed Sheeran

Perfect

Ed Sheeran

4.8

Oasis

Wonderwall

Oasis

4.8

Popular chords globally

Most played chords & tabs across all users

100 More

1

Perfect

Ed Sheeran

4.8

2

Creep

Radiohead

4.9

3

Yellow

Coldplay

4.8

4

Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

Green Day

4.8

5

Zombie

The Cranberries

4.8

6

Wonderwall

Oasis

4.8

7

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Bob Dylan

4.8

Recently added

Recently added chords & tabs

22K+ More

Dracula

Tame Impala

Stay Country Or Die Tryin’

Blake Shelton

Yo te necesito

Marca MP

5.0

Fast

Juice WRLD

5.0

Mr Red White And Blue

Coffey Anderson

Todo va estar bien

Barak

5.0

Station To Station

David Bowie

1.0