Sugar Trade – James Taylor
Nghệ sĩ: James Taylor
Hợp Âm Chuẩn
Word and Music by James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett and Timothy Mayer from James Taylor's 1981 album,
"Dad Loves His Work."
Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
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Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel
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And back when your grandfather's fathers were young
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Men of these shores made and gave up their lives
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Pulling up fish from the sea
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
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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 from Maine
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They were building a wall that will always remain
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
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Oh, the crown and the cross, the 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 is to blame?
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The captain or the cargo or the juice of the sugar cane?
Verse 4→ Phiên khúc
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The doryman he knows when the riptides will run
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He sets out his nets and he waits in the sun
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He thinks of his family and drinks of his rum
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And he waits for the codfish to come
Verse 5→ Phiên khúc
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It's the same goddamn ocean that keeps them alive
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It will swallow you up, it will let you survive
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It will heal you and steal you and take you away
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Like a note in a bottle with nothing to say
Verse 6→ Phiên khúc
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Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel
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Back when your grandfather's fathers were young
ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
Men of these shores made and gave up their lives
ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Em/G[/ch] [ch]Dm/F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
Pulling up fish from the sea