Damien Dempsey\To Hell Or Barbados, 2007 - To Hell or Barbados | Текст песни

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• Damien Dempsey\To Hell Or Barbados, 2007
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(The song describes ethnic cleansing of Ireland in 1652-1659, when over a half of Irish population was enslaved and sent to the West Indies)

All the golden soft silk sand
That surrounds this pretty island
Must have seemed like prison walls steely bars.

In this playground of the rich
All the yachts and champagne lavish,
I still see a lonely child watch the stars.

Oliver*, your evil deeds many still condone,
You sent me far cross the sea to be owned.

To hell or Barbados
To hell or Barbados
To hell on Barbados
We were sent.

That's a heaven on this earth,
A Creator's work of art,
And the sunsents o'er the sea so divine.

Then the whiplash licks my heels
And my scorched skin bursts on peels.
No, my people were not made for these burning fields.

Oliver, your evil deeds many still condone,
But your crime of slavery - those are known.
Good men like old Wilberforce**
Decade far too late,
Far too late to save us
From the fate.

Of hell or Barbados
Of hell or Barbados
To hell or Barbados
We went.

To hell or Barbados
To hell or Barbados
To hell on Barbados
We were sent.

Oh, no, no-no-no-no-no-no
Oh, no, oh, let go of my hand,
But they drive us apart,
By the sward trough my heart
Sent us on our way

Oh, no, no-no-no-no-no-no
Oh, no, oh, let go of my hand,
But they drive us apart,
By the sward trough my heart
And beyond my way.

To hell or Barbados
To hell or Barbados
To hell on Barbados
We went.

To hell or Barbados
To hell on Barbados
To hell on Barbados
We went.
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* Oliver Cromwel - lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland - known for his genicide against Irish catholics, where he authorised the most massive white slave trade in Irish history.

** William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833) - English MP campaigning for abolition of the slave trade. In 1833 Act abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire was passed (with the exceptions "of the Territories in the Possession of the East India Company").

more info - http://nnm.me/blogs/svaroczic/irlandskaya-rabotorgovlya-belye-raby-raby-zabytye-vremenem/

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