Molasses Chords by Schooner Fare

_ Oh, the African man cuts a sugar cane.
Oh, _ molasses!
He works in the sun and he works in the rain.
Oh, molasses rum!
Then he loads it up on a wooden ship
and sends it off on a northern trip.
Sing it!
Oh, _ molasses!
Oh, molasses rum!
Sing it!
Oh, molasses!
_ Oh, New England tea!
It killed my grandpa, killed my pa,
and it sure as hell is a-killin' me!
_ Sing it!
Oh, molasses!
Oh, molasses rum!
When they fought the war for the colonies.
Oh, molasses!
They fought it over New England tea.
Oh, molasses rum!
When old King George would attack sun-hit,
the colonies nearly took a fit. Sing it!
Oh, molasses!
_ Oh, molasses rum!
Sing it!
Oh, _ molasses!
Oh, New England tea!
It killed my grandpa, killed my pa,
and it sure as hell is a-killin' me! _
Sing it!
Oh, molasses! _
Oh, molasses rum!
In the time of the 1917 war.
Oh, _ molasses!
Molasses sittin' on the Boston shore.
Oh, molasses rum!
They pumped it in at 12 degrees,
a long winter night in a Boston free.
[Cm] Sing it!
Oh, molasses! _
Oh, molasses rum!
In the morning it was 42.
_ Oh, molasses! _
Molasses vats split clean in two.
Oh, molasses rum!
Two million gallons coverin' the bay,
26 people drowned in the flood that day.
Sing it!
Oh, molasses!
_ Oh, molasses rum!
_ Oh, _ molasses!
Oh, New England tea!
It killed my grandpa, killed my pa,
[F#] and it sure as hell is a-killin' me!
_ Sing it!
Oh, molasses!
Oh, molasses rum!
My grandpa, he died cuttin' cane. _
Oh, molasses!
My pa went down in the great brown rain of_
Oh, molasses rum!
But I won't go in a pool of blood,
no, I won't drown in a black-strap flood.
Still I'll go down to molasses.
Oh, molasses rum!
Sing it!
Oh, molasses!
Oh, New England tea!
It killed my grandpa, killed my pa,
and it sure as hell is a-killin' me! _
Sing it!
Oh, molasses! _
Oh, _ [N] molasses!
Oh, _ _ molasses!
_ Oh, molasses [D#] rum! _ _ _ _ _ _
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