Afternoon Matinee: Protest - If I Had A Rocket Launcher

Performed by Bruce Cockburn

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

If I had a rocket launcher

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

If I had a rocket launcher

If I had a rocket launcher

I would retaliate

On the Rio Lacantun

100,000 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

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

If I had a rocket launcher

If I had a rocket launcher

Some son of a bitch would die

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