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I'm cutting up her pure white dress |
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That I dyed red |
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That I dyed red |
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I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets |
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What time erases and memory mocks |
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I'll send them over the ocean foam |
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Right into those gentle European homes |
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The slave ship "Blessing" slipped from Liverpool |
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Over the waves the Royal Navy rules |
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To go and plunder the Kingdom of Benin |
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Where certain history ends and shame begins |
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Dahomey traders paid in powder and shot |
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Line up their prisoners and they sell them in lots |
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They packed them tight inside those coffin ships |
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And took them to the brand new world of |
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auction blocks and whips |
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I'm cutting up her pure white dress |
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That I dyed red |
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That I dyed red |
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I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets |
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What time erases and memory mocks |
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I'll send them over the ocean foam |
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Right into those gentle European homes |
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White is the sheet on your fine linen bed |
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The blood stained red on each cotton thread |
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Merchants will gather at St. George's Hall |
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To unveil the kneeling slave who is carved upon the wall |
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So picture the scene on the Old Salt House docks |
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Where they loaded the iron shackles and locks |
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Between a sandstone crocodile, a barrel and a bale |
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You will see the nameless faces they were offering for sale |
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So, I sing the praises of God's glory |
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As a blue cetacean floats in the basement |
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An elephant on the second storey |
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They queue all day to see him |
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In my American Museum |
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But the Lord will judge us with fire and thunder |
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As man continues in all his blunders |
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It's only money |
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It's only numbers |
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Maybe it is time to put aside these fictitious wonders |
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But man is feeble |
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Man is puny |
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And if it should divide the Union |
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There is no man that should own another |
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When he can't even recognise his sister and his brother |
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