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Thread #56795 Message #890667
Posted By: Stewie
14-Feb-03 - 07:34 PM
Thread Name: Greatest Anti-War Song Ever?
Subject: Lyr Add: MARIA DIAZ (Lenny Galant)
This one doesn't appear to be in the DT or forum:
MARIA DIAZ (Lenny Galant)
Maria Diaz is only nine Yet she's seen enough hard times To last a hundred lifetimes, maybe more Seen children die so young, peasants fall beneath the gun Heard a nation cry for justice in a war
Somoza's guards did come one day Took her father far away He was put into a truck with many more No reason did they give as to why he should not live He's just another peasant in a war
Maria cries to sleep at night She says she dreams in black and white Her mother says that coloured dreams will be no more 'til there's freedom in the land, tyrants are forever banned And they let us build a nation without war
Late one night a gun did sound There were Contras all around And they searched the village houses for their prey Maria's mother did protest, she felt the shot run through her breast Maria stared in horror where her mother lay
In magazines and on the air They all talk of war down there Who the yanks support and who the reds are for But was she left or was she right when her mother died that night Or was she just another orphan in a war
Don't look for God up in the skies You can't see God with closed eyes They must open to the wounds that lie below And see the children have a chance A chance to live, a chance to dance A chance to dream in colours bright with freedom's glow
Source: Roy Bailey 'Leaves From a Tree' Fuse CF 394. 'Maria Diaz' has been reissued on CD on Roy Bailey 'Past Masters' Fuse CFCD 403.