Eric Von Schmidt & Tom Rush

Cane standing in the field getting old and red

Lot of misery in Georgetown three men lying dead

Joshua head of the government he said strike for better pay

Cane cutters a striking Joshua gone away

Joshua gone Barbados staying in a big hotel

People on St. Vincent de got a many sad tale to tell

Sugar mill owner told striker I don't need you to cut my cane

Bring in another bunch of fallas strike be all in vain

Get a bunch of tough fallas bring 'em from the Zion hill

Bring 'em in a bus to Georgetown you know somebody get kill

Sonny Child the overseer I swear he's an ignorant man

Walking through the cane field pistol in his hand

But Joshua gone Barbados just like he don't know

People on the island got no place to go

Police giving protection new fallas cutting cane

Strikers can't do nothing strike be all in vain

And Sonny Child he curse a striker wave his pistol round

There're beating Sonny with a cutlass beat him to the ground

There's a lot of misery in Georgetown you can hear the women bawl

Joshua gone Barbados he don't care at all

Cane standing in the field getting old and red

Sonny Child in the hospital pistol on his bed

I wish I could go to England Trinidad or Caruso

People on the island they got no place to go

Joshua gone Barbados staying in a big hotel

People on St. Vincent de got a many sad tale to tell