Lyrics
It will heal you and steal you and take you away, the musket and the chain
the crown and the cross
And back when your grandfather s fathers were young, like a note in a bottle with nothing to say, the family name
Stealing young men to cut sugar cane, it will let you survive, pulling up fish from the sea
Stealing young men to cut sugar cane, it will let you survive James, the doryman he knows when the riptides will run
It will swallow you up, it s the same goddam ocean that keeps them alive
They were building a wall that will always remain, he thinks of his family and drinks of his rum Sugar, stealing young men to cut sugar cane
Rum to new bedford and codfish from maine, and he waits for the codfish to come
The musket and the chain, now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel
The crown and the cross, two hundred years later and who is to blame, it will let you survive
Stealing young men to cut sugar cane, pulling up fish from the sea
Back when your grandfather s fathers were young, it s the same goddam ocean that keeps them alive, the musket and the chain
The crown and the cross, it s the same goddam ocean that keeps them alive
he thinks of his family and drinks of his rum
stealing young men to cut sugar cane
The musket and the chain, it will heal you and steal you and take you away
The captain or the cargo or the juice of the sugar cane, pulling up fish from the sea
Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel, and back when your grandfather s fathers were young
They were building a wall that will always remain, the doryman he knows when the riptides will run, he thinks of his family and drinks of his rum
it will swallow you up