Chords for Molasses To Rum - 1776 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

_ Our northern brethren, feeling a bit tender toward our slaves.
They don't keep slaves.
Oh, no.
But they're willing to be considerable carriers of slaves to others.
They're willing. _ _ _
For the shilling.
_ Oh, haven't you heard, Mr.
[Fm] Adams? _ _
Slink, clink.
_ Molasses to rum to slur.
_ _ Oh, what a [F#] beautiful [C#m] _ _ waltz.
[Fm] You dance with us.
We dance with you.
In molasses and rum [C] and [F#] slur. _ _
[Fm] _ _ Who sail the ships out of Boston?
_ [G#] Laden with bibles [F#] and rum.
_ [Fm] Who [Cm] drinks a toast [F] to the ivory [Fm] coast?
Hail, Africa, the [F#] slavers have [C#m] come.
[G#] New [C] England with bibles and rum.
_ _ And it's off with the rum and the bibles.
[D] Take on the slaves.
Clink, clink.
[C] Then hail and farewell [D#] to the [C] smell of the [Fm] African _ coast. _ _ _ _ _
Molasses to rum to slur. _
Tisn't morals, tis [F#] money that serves.
[C#m] _ [Fm]
Shall we dance to the sound of the profitable pound?
In molasses and rum [F#] and slur.
_ [C#m] _
[Fm] _ _ _ [Cm] Who sail the ships out of Guinea?
_ Laden with [C#m] bibles and slurs.
[C#] Tis [D#] Boston can boast [G#] to the West Indies coast.
Jamaica, we brum [C#m] watch it graves.
_ [Cm] [Fm] Antigua Barbados.
[C]
We brum bibles and _ [F] slurs.
[Fm] _ _ Gentlemen, you mustn't think that our northern friends see our black slaves as merely figures in a ledger.
Oh, no.
They see them as figures on a block. Look.
Look at the faces at the auctions, gentlemen.
White faces on African wharves.
Seafaring faces.
New England faces.
Put them in the ships.
Cram them in the ships.
_ Stuff them in the ships.
Hurry, gentlemen.
Let the auction begin. _
Yuh-huh, yuh-huh. _ _ _ _
_ I am the auctioneer.
Yuh-huh, yuh-huh.
_ _ _ Slave _ black gold.
In the gold.
Gold, gold.
_ In the, in the, in the.
Blackbirds for sale.
_ Shanty.
Emo, emo, emo.
_ Blackbirds for sale.
_ _ Handle them. _ _
[G#] One, two, [C] _ two [Fm] [Cm] fingers.
[C] _ Handle [Fm] them.
[Cm] [Fm] Handle [B] them.
[C] The, the, the, the. _
[G] For _ [F] the love of God, Mr.
Rutledge, please.
_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Masses to run to _ _ slaves.
Who [D#] sail the ships [Fm] back to [D#] Boston. _
[C#] Laden [D#] with [C#m] gold.
See it gleam.
[C] _
_ [Fm] Whose fortunes are made in the triangle trade.
[F#] Hail slavery.
The New England [Fm] dream.
Mr.
Adams, I give you a toast.
Hail Boston. _
[C] Hail _ Charleston. _ _
Who's stinker.
The more.
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _