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Our government is torturing them there, too.
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"If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics." Andy Kershaw, BBC
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Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
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Peak #260
Peak in subgenre #19
Author
David Rovics
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David Rovics 2005 All Rights Reserved
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May 17, 2005
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Our government is torturing them there, too.
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The conquistadors came with their sabres and guns And they raped and they slaughtered until they were done They hacked and they killed and left no one alive Then they brought in the slaves who they allowed to survive Welcome to the New World, you could hear the men say As they sat on the shores of Guantanamo Bay And after four hundred years independence was short That's just how it is with a deep water port The battleships came and they never left shore Tasting the conquest, they just wanted more The sign it said welcome to the US of A In the Republic of Cuba, Guantanamo Bay Past the barbed wire fence and the field of mines You can see the men who left their families behind To burn 'neath the sun to be tortured and killed Where their stomaches are empty and their spirits are grilled If you're looking for freedom this is the price you must pay It's written in blood on Guantanamo Bay The vultures they circle at ease overhead The living may live and the dead will be dead the time it may come in this tropical heat That they'll have to go somewhere else to eat Maybe a storm will come wash it away But still the guard towers glitter on Guantanamo Bay Created April, 2004 Copyright David Rovics 2004, all rights reserved
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