Sugar Trade

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Now back when this earth was a 
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silver blue jewel
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And back when your grandfather's 
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fathers were young
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Men of these shores made and 
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gave up their lives
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Pulling up fish from the sea

[Verse 2]

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While down in the African slavery 
trade
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Stealing young men to cut sugar cane
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Rum to New Bedford and codfish 
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from Maine
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They were building a wall that will
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 always remain

[Verse 3]

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Oh, the crown and the cross, the 
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musket and the chain
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The white man's religion, the family
 name
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Two hundred years later and who
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 is to blame?
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The captain or the cargo or the 
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juice of the sugar cane?

[Verse 4]

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The doryman he knows when the 
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riptides will run
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He sets out his nets and he waits 
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in the sun
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He thinks of his family and 
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drinks of his rum
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And he waits for the codfish to 
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come

[Verse 5]

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It's the same goddamn ocean that 
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keeps them alive
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It will swallow you up, it will 
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let you survive
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It will heal you and steal you and
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 take you away
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Like a note in a bottle with 
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nothing to say

[Verse 6]

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Now back when this earth was a 
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silver blue jewel
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Back when your grandfather's 
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fathers were young
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Men of these shores made and gave
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 up their lives
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Pulling up fish from the sea
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