Ship Ahoy Lyrics - Sinead Oconnor

A song by a band called "Marxman" containing 

background vocals by Sinead. 

------------------------------------------------- 

A thousand cultures stolen ships that came sailing 

Sighted from the shoreline people stood waiting 

But armies came invading and raiding to conquer 

Understood nothing of a land that stood longer 

But might was much stronger than right could ever be 

Took away the land planned a new destiny 

Butchery and murder and still I say murder 

Butchery and murder and still I say murder 

Wait! Hold up cos Phrase will break the mould 

Culture growing stronger aging never old 

Death accelerating, and I don't want to die 

Fish hooked by a ship, Lord take me where I lie 

Gone where the lucky ones, disease or suicide 

The pride of survivors to cry for those that died 

To resurrect the status and overcome the ploy 

No bells or beads to barter for this young black boy 

Ship ahoy 

Lord take me where I lie, don't let my children die 

Ship ahoy 

Lord take me where I lie, don't let my children die 

Gone are the days now the ships cease to sail 

I don't think so what does a wage entail 

Nine of five slavery or a twenty four seven 

Most slaves tricked by the promise of a heaven 

Controlled by the sound of a whip that goes sack 

Mind - forged manacles make sure there's no slack 

Think your not a slave, cos no whip marks your back 

Now a bureaucrat wields the nine tails of the cat 

Ain't nothing changed but the weather the song remains the same 

Hollis comes left set up upon the Lamebrain 

You can't tame the beast, the beast can't be changed 

Have to smash the system, wisdom rearranged 

Slavery claimed to be histories mystery 

Wished it could be....It's still part of we 

Search and look around my birthplace is torn 

But England has fallen dusk negates dawn 

Ship ahoy 

Lord take me where I lie, don't let my children die 

Ship ahoy 

Lord take me where I lie, don't let my children die 

Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, now they call it perestroika 

Mandela's free but still can't stop the slaughter 

Now they call it free trade, free choice for all 

But the real freedom is ten per cent small 

Freedom is a song which the caged bird sings 

They keep the key all we see is the keyring 

Fooled by the glisten, but the glisten is not gold 

And I will not buy the beads that I'm sold 

I stand here stand clear truth be my witness 

How many Hitlers before you see the litmus 

Test I won't rest, slave who won't behave 

And no I want not the freedom of the slave 

If the East wants the beast let the beast roam 

Cos in the East the death of the beast was sown 

You can fool the people that they're equal 

But you won't fool me with a sequel 

Ship ahoy 

Lord take me where I lie, don't let my children die. 

Ship ahoy 

Lord take me where I lie, don't let my children die. 

Don't let my children die 

Don't let my children die 

Lord take me where I lie, don't let my children die. 

don't let my children die 

children 

don't let my children die 

children 

don't let my children die 

children 

etc.....