If I Had A Rocket Launcher... Bruce Cockburn Rocks!!!!

[SPKrazy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02J_kPincA
Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher

Here come 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 sonofabitch would die

[KG]

1. sometimes, even pacifists have their breaking point.

[mokawanis]

2. Another one by Cockburn

"And They Call It Democracy"

Favorite lines from the song:

See the paid-off local bottom feeders
passing themselves off as leaders
kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
and it's open for business like a cheap bordello

[Monk06]

3. He played that on Austen City Limits once and everyone's jaw hit the floor.

The guy is a born again Christian to boot and
a really sweet guy.

[Richard Steele]

4. Awesomely great song. One of my all-time faves! nm