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If I Had A Rocket Launcher

Bruce Cockburn
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Strum
D-DU-UDU
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
 If I had a rocket launcher
 If I had a rocket launcher
 I would retaliate
 On the Rio Lacuntun 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
 If I had a rocket launcher
 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 victim's cry
 If I had a rocket launcher
 If I had a rocket launcher
 If I had a rocket launcher
 Some son-of-a-bitch would die

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Readable chord sheet for If I Had A Rocket Launcher by Bruce Cockburn

[E]Here comes the [D]heli[C]copter, [D]    [E]
[E]Second [D]time [C]today   [D]      [E]
[E]Every[D]body [C]scatters[D]   [E]
[E]And hopes it [D]goes [C]away [D]    [E]
[E]How many [D]kids they've [C]murdered[D]   [E]
[E]Only [D]God can [C]say  [B]      [A]
[A]If I had a rocket [D]launcher
[A]If I had a rocket [D]launcher
[A]If I had a rocket [D]launcher
I'd make somebody pay [E]    [D]       [C]          [D]             [E]                [D]                   [C]                      [E]

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
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
I would retaliate

On the Rio Lacuntun 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
If I had a rocket launcher
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 victim's cry
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
Some son-of-a-bitch would die

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