If I Had a Rocket Launcher Lyrics

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

Chiapas, Mexico and Toronto
February and April 1983

Bruce Cockburn - Anything Anytime Anywhere: Singles 1979-2002

Jan 2002

1. My Beat
2. Wondering Where the Lions Are
3. Tokyo
4. The Coldest Night of the Year
5. The Trouble with Normal
6. Lovers in a Dangerous Time
7. If I Had a Rocket Launcher
8. Call It Democracy
9. Waiting for a Miracle
10. If a Tree Falls
11. Listen for the Laugh
12. Anything Anytime Anywhere