DOORS OF NO RETURN beerandflies M. / Genre: Soul ▶ DOORS OF NO RETURN 0:00 0:00 Note to Instructor No Notes Available + Backstory Click to expand Doors of No Return is the port in Ghana from which slaves were shipped to the New World. Lyrics V1The land where bones are white and rottenWhere the sea still stirs and churnsLike the ghosts of chains and cotton There stands the Doors of No Return Skin is black and souls are blackened Like the stories never toldSails taught and ropes are slackened Journey off to the New World CHSing the song, childrenBear your burden to the FatherThen sing some more, childrenHow God’s gonna trouble the waterOh, yeah, sing my childrenHow God’s gonna trouble the waterThen sing again, louderBear your burden to the FatherV2Rows of people tied and shackled The sun is cruel like a whip on skinGod is watching, sad and baffled How we are sold by kith and kinMother’s bought, but not her child Who watched her wagon disappear Lives disgraced and hopes defiledBy the whip of an overseer CHSing the song, childrenBear your burden to the FatherThen sing some more, childrenHow God’s gonna trouble the waterOh, yeah, sing my childrenHow God’s gonna trouble the waterThen sing again, louderBear your burden to the FatherBRIDGE Lost and forgotten Their innocent dreams The country they’re brought in Would be the land of the freeCHSing the song, childrenBear your burden to the FatherThen sing some more, childrenHow God’s gonna trouble the waterOh, yeah, sing my childrenHow God’s gonna trouble the waterThen sing again, louderBear your burden to the FatherThis is the chorus of an actual song slaves sang on cotton fields: Wade in the waterWade in the water, childrenWade in the waterGod's gonna trouble the water.Wade in the waterWade in the water, childrenWade in the waterGod's gonna trouble the water.
