Molasses

Molasses

<singing oh molasses, oh new england tea

The African man cuts the 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  <singing 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 put a tax on it, the colonies nearly had a fit  <singing oh molasses, oh molasses rum>

<...>

In the time of the 1917 war, <oh molasses>, molasses sittin' on the Boston shore  <oh molasses, oh molasses rum>

When they pumped it in it was 12 degrees, a long cold night in a Boston freeze

<...>

In the morning it was 32, <oh molasses>, molasses vat split clean in two  <oh molasses, oh molasses rum>

2 million gallons covered the bay, 26 people drowned in the flood that day  <singing oh molasses, oh molasses rum>

<...>

My pa went down in the great brown rain, <oh molasses rum>

But I won't go in a pool of blood, no I won't drown in a blackstrap flood

Still I'll go down to molasses, <oh molasses rum>

<...>

Singing oh molasses(x3)

Oh molasses rum!