{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":827145,"song":"Prossers Gabriel","artist":"Tim Barry","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11597684-prossers-gabriel-chords-by-tim-barry/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/827145?type=chord","rating":4.70674,"votes":3,"content":"[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDoes anyone know the name Gabriel Prosser?[/tab]\r\n                                                             \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                       [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy conscience says he’s the one that history missed.[/tab]\r\n                                              \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA blacksmith by trade up at Brookfield Plantation,[/tab]\r\n     \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA Henrico County slave born of owner Thomas. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIf you listen closely you’ll hear the words perfect,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe Caribbean uprising caught fire in this land.[/tab]\r\n                                                  \r\n[tab]                       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nUp and down the James River, Pamunky and Appomattox,[/tab]\r\n \r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTobacco soil gone bad deferred a movement for the blacks.  [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNine years before, down in Santo Domingo,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                                     [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSlaves refused to submit and took the right of all men.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nVirginia whites got nervous and hired more militias,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]  \r\nAs blacks inspired, plotted and passed on their plans.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]    \r\nMister Prosser’s Gabriel was smart as he was strong,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                       [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA head of keloid scars and a mind of knowing right and wrong.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                                  [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nVoted general at twenty-four in the year of eighteen-hundred,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                                      [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]            \r\nHaunted by the hymns and wailing of his fellow slaves.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow does anyone know the name Gabriel Prosser?[/tab]\r\n                                                             \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                       [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy conscience says he’s the one that history missed.[/tab]\r\n                                                \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA blacksmith by trade up at Brookfield Plantation,[/tab]\r\n     \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA Henrico County slave born of owner Thomas.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                          [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt was on an August night just North of Richmond, Virginia, [/tab]\r\n   \r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch] \r\nGabriel’s men gathered as their owners they slept.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                                          [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSome would burn the Capital to distract residents and masters,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]    \r\nWhile others took the city and freed the convicts.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                                        [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]        \r\nWell the whites they knew nothing, never seen what could hit ‘em,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                                       [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNothing like this could happen to their carefree black men.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch] \r\nBut think about freedom, now think about slavery.[/tab]\r\n \r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                                         [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBlacks armed themselves with muskets and homemade bayonets.[/tab]\r\n \r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                                      [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith a white flag on the Capital, all blacks they would rise.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch] \r\nAll whites spared, would lose but an arm.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                                  [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou’re a coward if you own men for profit and greed,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                                       [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou’re the coward of all and for all you must bleed.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow does anyone know the name Gabriel Prosser?[/tab]\r\n                                                             \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                       [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy conscience says he’s the one that history missed.[/tab]\r\n                                              \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA blacksmith by trade up at Brookfield Plantation,[/tab]\r\n     \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA Henrico County slave born of owner Thomas.[/tab]\r\n \r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPharaoh and Tom ratted out Gabriel Prosser,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch] \r\nTheir owner was Mosby, and neighbor of him.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey say the sky seemed seized with rain and lightning,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                           [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]  \r\nOn the night of August thirtieth one could see nor stand.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe militias’ let loose to hunt Gabriel Prosser,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWho took to the swamps as they imprisoned his men.[/tab]\r\n \r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFlagged a boat whose captain was a Methodist preacher,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch] \r\nBut a traitor slave turned him in in the end.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey hung Gabriel down at Broad and 15th Street,[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLord he would not give a word up on his men.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut he took that noose and he took it with honor,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                                         [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]       \r\nHe’s buried beneath a lot of parked cars, now, and pavement.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]   \r\nThere’s no monument, there’s no stone here to see him,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                                         [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nJust black asphalt planked by high-rise hospital chains.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch] \r\nIf I had it my way we’d see memorials climbin',[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo a true and honest hero, Prosser’s Gabriel.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow does anyone know the name Gabriel Prosser?[/tab]\r\n                                                             \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                       [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy conscience says he’s the one that history missed.[/tab]\r\n                                              \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA blacksmith by trade up at Brookfield Plantation,[/tab]\r\n     \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA Henrico County slave born of owner Thomas. 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