SINGER: Bruce Cockburn

SONG:If I Had A Rocket Launcher

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