D                 G         C           D
Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel
                    G            C             D
And back when your grandfather's fathers were young
Bm            E                A              D
Men of these shores made and gave up their lives
Bm           E             A
Pulling up fish from the sea

[Verse 2]

      D                     C/D
While down in the African slavery trade
D                     C/D
Stealing young men to cut sugar cane
 D            C          G/B    C      D
Rum to New Bedford and codfish from Maine
                        C            Bb    C   D
They were building a wall that will always remain

[Verse 3]

                                  C/D
Oh, the crown and the cross, the musket and the chain
     D                        C/D
The white man's religion, the family name
       D            C          G/B   C      D
Two hundred years later and who is to blame?
                   C              Bb                    C  D
The captain or the cargo or the juice of the sugar cane?

[Verse 4]

     D           G              C             D
The doryman he knows when the riptides will run
                    G         C            D
He sets out his nets and he waits in the sun
    Bm            E              A           D
He thinks of his family and drinks of his rum
        Bm               E          A
And he waits for the codfish to come

[Verse 5]

          D                          C/D
It's the same goddamn ocean that keeps them alive
         D                        C/D
It will swallow you up, it will let you survive
         D                C           G/B   C  D
It will heal you and steal you and take you away
                    C            Bb  C   D
Like a note in a bottle with nothing to say

[Verse 6]

    D               G             C          D
Now back when this earth was a silver blue jewel
                 G            C             D
Back when your grandfather's fathers were young
 Bm            E                 A             D
Men of these shores made and gave up their lives
 Bm           E             A Em/G  Dm/F   G  D
Pulling up fish from the sea