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 Em D/E Cmaj7 Here comes the helicopter E D Cmaj7 Second time today Em D Cmaj7 Everybody scatters Em D Cmaj7 And hopes it goes away Em D Cmaj7 How many kids they've murdered Em D Cmaj7 Only God can say Cmaj7/A D/B If I had a rocket launcher Cmaj7/A D/B If I had a rocket launcher Cmaj7/A D/B If I had a rocket launcher Cmaj7/A D/B If I had a rocket launcher Cmaj7/A D/B I'd make somebody pay Em D/E Cmaj7 Em D/E Cmaj7 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
