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I'll send them over the ocean foam...The slave ship "Blessin...Over the waves the Royal Navy rules...To go and plunder the Kingdom of Benin...And took them to the brand new world of auction blocks and ...I'll send them over the ocean foam...White is the sheet on your fine ...The blood stained red o...The merchants gather at...To unveil the kneeling slave who is carved upon the wall...So picture the scene on the old Salt House dock...Where they loaded the iron shackles and l...You will see the nameless faces they were off...So, I sing the praises of God's glory... cetacean floats in the basement...An elephant on the second story...But the Lord will judge us,...if it should divide the Union