Chords for Tom Rush -- Joshua Gone Barbados

named Rashad, and he [A]
actually instigated the strike.
[Ab] He told the cane cutters that they should be getting more [Eb] money.
Go on strike boys, [N] trust me you'll love it.
You'll get more money and everybody will be happy.
And the mill owners _ didn't share Joshua's enthusiasm. _
_ And they just hired [G] a bunch of other cane cutters from _ [N] other islands. _
[Ab] And they got a [E] bunch of big heavy guys from the bad end, some [Eb] of them from Quetzal and Sinai Hill,
and brought them down to the school buses, to the [E] baseball parks, to the [G] game fields,
and cut these fellas away from the stand [E] breakers.
[F] _ [Eb] It didn't work out for them, [E] pretty soon they were cutting the cutters up.
The cane cutters were called Cutlass's _ Executives.
It turned out it was [Eb] pretty much a civil war of Joshua.
He was popular, [N] besides having a situation of _ _ _ _ _ _ vacation.
_ He went to his ranch in Texas and_
I don't know. _
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Sorry, [G] just let him talk.
[Ab] He went over [E] _ to Barbados, _ _ stayed at the double tree. _
_ _ Drank things with umbrellas and white-coat things. _ _ _ _
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_ I used to say,
I used to say,
I used to say,
_ Yeah. _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ Yeah, I told you about it.
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_ _ _ Joshua gone to Barbados, _ _
Stayin' in a big hotel.
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_ People all in [E] St.
Vincent,
_ [Dbm] Got a pretty sad tale [E] to tell. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Shoulda been on a total strike.
_ _ Don't need you to cut another [A] cane, _ _ _
_ Break another bunch of [E] fellas. _
_ [A] You strike me all in [E] vain, _ _ _ _
_ _ Get a bunch of tough fellas,
_ _ You bring them from Zion [A] Hill, _ _ _
Bring them in a bus [E] down to Georgetown, _
_ [A] Get no son by [E] the gate. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And Sonny Charlie O'Shea,
_ I swear he's an [A] ignorant man, _ _ _
_ Walkin' through [E] the chain gates,
_ [A] With a pistol in his [E] hand.
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_ Joshua gone to Barbados,
_ Just like he don't [A] know, _ _ _
People all [E] in St.
Vincent, _
_ [A] They got no place [E] to go. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Sonny Charlie first struck,
_ _ Then waved his pistol [A] around, _ _ _
They're beatin' [E] Sonny with a cuss, _
_ [A] Beat him to [E] the ground. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ This cane standin' in a field, _ _ _
Gettin' old and [A] red, _ _ _
_ Sonny Charlie [E] in the hospital,
_ _ [A] _ Pistol on his [E] bed, _ _ _ _ _
_ It's a lot of misery in Georgetown,
_ _ _ He can hear the women [A] walk, _ _
_ Joshua gone [E] to Barbados,
_ [A] He don't [E] care to talk. _ _ _ _