Lyr Req: When Oppressed Becomes Oppressor (Garbutt

Subject: When oppressed becomes oppressor
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 29 May 11 - 05:39 PM

It has probably already been discussed but I couldn't find it! I heard this song for the first time today.

Brilliant.

DtG

Subject: RE: When oppressed becomes oppressor
From: Stringsinger
Date: 29 May 11 - 06:13 PM

Great performance and tune but I couldn't get all the lyrics. Could you please post them?

Subject: ADD: When Oppressed Becomes Oppressor (Garbutt)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 May 11 - 09:17 PM

I found the lyrics at http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=5700.840

WHEN OPPRESSED BECOMES OPPRESSOR
(Vin Garbutt)

When oppressed becomes oppressor and the best becomes the worst,
When the meek become the mighty and the blessed become the cursed,
When the flame of faith is failing and the light of love has died,
When the fruit of truth decays upon the tree of human pride.

Send me your huddled masses cried America the free,
Then from Saigon to San Salvador
The streets were filled with refugees.

The Jew who braved the ghetto wearing David's sacred sign,
In the promised land with stick in hand,
He beats the child of Palestine.

The Chinese peasant army faced the capitalist gun,
Then their long march to freedom
Ended in the Square of Tiannenmon.

The world expelled the man Saddam
From a defenceless Kuwait,
Then the torturers of Al Sabah sent hundreds to an unknown fate.

The Chetnik fought so bravely to fend off the fascist horde,
Then his sons went raping Muslim girls
On orders from a Serb warlord.

Will we ever learn from history,
The memory fades so fast
But we're destined to repeat the sins
If we forget the past.

When oppressed becomes oppressor and the best becomes the worst,
When the meek become the mighty and the blessed become the cursed,
When the flame of faith is failing and the light of love has died,
When the fruit of truth decays upon the tree of human pride.

Subject: RE: When oppressed becomes oppressor (Garbutt)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 May 11 - 11:09 PM

Link to tune?

~S~

Subject: RE: When oppressed becomes oppressor (Garbutt)
From: Jeri
Date: 29 May 11 - 11:21 PM

Link to YouTube video in first post.