JOSHUA GONE BARBADOS
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Cane standing in the field getting old and red
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Lots of misery in Georgetown three men lying dead
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Joshua head of the government
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Said stike for better pay
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Cane cutters are striking
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Joshua gone away
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Joshua gone Barbados staying in a big hotel
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People on St Vincent got a many sad tale to tell
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Sugar mill owner told the strikers
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I don’t need you to cut my cane
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Bring in another another bunch of fellas
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You strike me all in vain
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Get a bunch of tough fellas
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Bring them from the Zion hills
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Bring them on a bus to Georgetown
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You know somebody could get killed
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Sonny Child the overseer
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Swear he's an ignorant man
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Walking thru the cane fields
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Pistol in his hand
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Joshua gone Barbados just like he  don't know
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People on the island got no place to go
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Police giving protection 
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New fellas cutting cane
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Strikers can't do nothin strike is all in vain
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And Sonny Child he cussed the strikers waved his pistol round

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They're beating Sonny with the cutters
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Beat him to the ground
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There's a lot of misery in Georgetown
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You can hear the woman bawl
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Joshua gone Barbados
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He don't care at all
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Cane standing in the fields getting old and red
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Sonny Child is in the hospital pistol on his bed
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I wish I could go to England Trinidad or Curacaos
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People on the island got no place to go
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Joshua gone Barbados staying in a big hotel
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People on St Vincent’s got many sad tales to tell