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 launcheri'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 launcheri 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 launcheri 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 launchersome sonofabitch would die

(CHIAPAS, MEXICO AND TORONTO -- FEBRUARY AND APRIL 1983)