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Reply #18: Or how about "If I Had A Rocket Launcher" by Bruce Cockburn? [View All]

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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 02:46 PM
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18. Or how about "If I Had A Rocket Launcher" by Bruce Cockburn?
Lyrics: <http://cockburnproject.net/songs&music/iiharl.html>

Here comes the helicopter -- second time today
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
How many kids they've murdered only God can say
If I had a rocket launcher...I'd make somebody pay

I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate
I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states
And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate
If I had a rocket launcher...I would retaliate

On the Rio Lacantun, one hundred thousand wait
To fall down from starvation -- or some less humane fate
Cry for guatemala, with a corpse in every gate
If I had a rocket launcher...I would not hesitate

I want to raise every voice -- at least I've got to try
Every time I think about it water rises to my eyes.
Situation desperate, echoes of the victims cry
If I had a rocket launcher...Some son of a bitch would die

BTW, I'm having trouble finding this song on one of the Corporate websites for purchase and download.
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