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Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel
And back when your grandfather's father was young
Men of these shores made and gave up their lives
Pulling up fish from the sea
While down in the african slavery trade
Stealing young men to cut sugar cane
Rum to new bedford and codfish from maine
They were building a wall that will always remain
Oh, the crown and the cross the musket and chain
The white man's religion, the family name
Two hundred years later and who is to blame?
The captain or the cargo or the juice of the sugar cane
The doryman he knows when the riptides will run
He sets out his nets and he sits in the sun
He thinks of his family and drinks of his rum
And he waits for the codfish to come
It's the same god-damned ocean that keeps them alive
It will swallow you up, it will let you survive
It will heal you and steal you and take you away
Like a note in a bottle with nothing to say
Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel
And back when your grandfather's father was young
Men of these shores made and gave up their lives
Pulling up fish from the sea
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Atlanta Civic Hall, May 13, 1981
2014 38 songs
- Fire And Rain 1990
- Fire And Rain 4 1990
- Your Smiling Face 1977
- How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved By You) 2014
- How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved By You) 2014
- Your Smiling Face 1977
- Mexico 2012
- Up on The Roof 1979
- Mexico 2012
- Up on The Roof 1979
- Walking Man 2012
- Millworker 1979
- Sugar Trade 1981
- Brother Trucker 1979
- Country Road 1990
- Steamroller 1990
- Millworker 1979
- Hard Times 1981
- Daddy's All Gone 2007
- I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine 2014
- Twelve Gates To the City 2014
- Walking Man 2012
- Steamroller 1990
- I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine 2014
- Hey Good Lookin' 2014
- Daddy's All Gone 2007
- Stand & Fight 1981
- Her Town Too 1981
- Brother Trucker 1979
- I Will Not Lie for You 1979
- Twelve Gates To the City 2014
- Hey Good Lookin' 2014
- Country Road 1990
- Sugar Trade 1981
- Stand & Fight 1981
- Her Town Too 1981
- Hard Times 1981
- I Will Not Lie for You 1979
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