If I Had A Rocket Launcher

From: jgoffin@acs.ucalgary.ca (Jeffrey Goffin) IF I HAD A ROCKET LAUNCHER by Bruce Cockburn E 079900 D 057700 C 035500 B 024400 A 002200 E D C D E Here comes the helicopter, E D C D E Second time today E D C D E Everybody scatters E D C D E And hopes it goes away E D C D E How many kids they've murdered E D C B A Only God can say A D If I had a rocket launcher A D If I had a rocket launcher A D If I had a rocket launcher E D C D E D C E 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 If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher I would retaliate On the Rio Lacuntun 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 If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher I would not hesitate INSTRUMENTAL 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 victim's cry If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher Some son-of-a-bitch would die ************************************************************************ * "Here's a song that I like to play. * * Print it out, play it and pass it around. * * If you like it, send me one of your favourites." * * * * Jeffrey Goffin Internet: jgoffin@acs.ucalgary.ca * * Calgary, Alberta, Canada FidoNet: 1:134/160 * ************************************************************************