IF I HAD A ROCKET LAUNCHER
(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 [3x] 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 [3x] 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 [3x] Some son of a bitch would die