《Sugar Trade》歌词

[00:00:00] Sugar Trade - James Taylor

[00:00:00] Written by：James Taylor/Timothy Mayer/Jimmy Buffett

[00:00:06] Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel

[00:00:12] And back when your grandfather's father was young

[00:00:17] Men of these shores made and gave up their lives

[00:00:23] Pulling up fish from the sea

[00:00:28] While down in the african slavery trade

[00:00:35] Stealing young men to cut sugar cane

[00:00:41] Rum to new bedford and codfish from maine

[00:00:46] They were building a wall that will always remain

[00:00:53] Oh the crown and the cross the musket and chain

[00:00:59] The white man's religion the family name

[00:01:05] Two hundred years later and who is to blame

[00:01:11] The captain or the cargo or the juice of the sugar cane

[00:01:20] The doryman he knows when the riptides will run

[00:01:26] He sets out his nets and he sits in the sun

[00:01:31] He thinks of his family and drinks of his rum

[00:01:37] And he waits for the codfish to come

[00:01:43] It's the same god damned ocean that keeps them alive

[00:01:49] It will swallow you up it will let you survive

[00:01:55] It will heal you and steal you and take you away

[00:02:00] Like a note in a bottle with nothing to say

[00:02:08] Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel

[00:02:14] Back when your grandfather's father was young

[00:02:19] Men of these shores made and gave up their lives

[00:02:25] Pulling up fish from the sea