Johnny Cash - Joshua Gone Barbados lyrics

Cane standing in the field
Getting old and red
Lot of misery in Georgetown
Three men laying dead
Joshua head of the government he
Said strike for better pay
Cane cutters are striking but
Joshua gone away
Joshua gone Barbados staying in a big hotel
People on St Vincent got many
Sad tales to tell
The sugar mill owner told the strikers I
Don't need you to cut my cane
Bring me another bunch of fellas your
Strike be all in vain
Get a bunch of tough fellas
Bring them from Zion Hill
Bring them in a bus to
Georgetown know somebody could kill
Sunny Child the overseer I swear
He's an ignorant man
Walking through the canefields pistol
In his hand
Joshua gone Barbados just like he don't know
People on the island got no place to go
Police giving protection new fellas
Cutting the cane
Strikers can't do nothing strike
Be all in vain
Sunny Child cussed the strikers
Wave his pistol round
They're beating Sunny with the cutless
Beat him to the ground
There's a lot of misery in Georgetown you
Can hear all the women bawl
Joshua gone Barbados he don't care at all
Cane standing in the fields
Getting old and red
Sunny Child in the hospital pistol on his bed
I wish I could go to
England Trinidad or Curacao
People on the island got no place to go
Joshua gone Barbados staying in a big hotel
People on St Vincent got many
Sad tales to tell