If I Had a Rocket Launcher
Bruce Cockburn
Standard Tuning

Em      079900
D/E     077700
Cmaj7   879000  or  870000
Cmaj7/A 505500
D/B     757700
 
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Here comes the helicopter

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Second time today

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Everybody scatters

Em              D    Cmaj7
And hopes it goes away
 
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How many kids they've murdered

Em              D    Cmaj7
Only God can say  

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If I had a rocket launcher

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If I had a rocket launcher

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If I had a rocket launcher

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If I had a rocket launcher

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I'd make somebody pay

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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

Instrumental...Em              D/E    Cmaj7 (4x)

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