It Could Have Been Me
Holly NearCi sono dei versi aggiunti nel corso del tempo alla prima versione del 1974: | |
IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME It could have been me, but instead it was you so i'll keep doing the work you were doing as if i were two i'll be a student of life, a singer of songs a farmer of food and a righter of wrong it could have been me, but instead it was you and it may be me dear sisters and brother before we are through but if you can work for freedom freedom, freedom, freedom if you can work (live, die, sing) for freedom i can too Students in ohio at kent and jackson state shot down by a nameless ( or vicious) fire one early day in may some people cried out angry you should have shot more of them down but you can't bury youth my friend youth grows the whole world round If you can die for freedom i can too The junta broke the fingers on victor jara's hands they said to the gentle poet "play your guitar now if you can" victor started singing but they brought his body down you can kill that man but not his song when it's sung the whole world round If you can sing for freedom i can too A woman in the jungle so many wars away studies late into the night, defends the village in the day although her skin is golden like mine will never be her song is heard and i know the words and i'll sing them until she's free If you can live for freedom i can too | IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME One night in oklahoma karen silkwood died because she had some secrets that big companies wanted to hide there's talk of nuclear safety and there's talk of national pride but we all know it is a death machine and that's why karen died If you can speak for freedom i can too The songs of nicaragua and el salvador will long outlast the singers who face the guns in war they sing at the line of fire, they sing from the fire within all across the land the poets stand (spoken in place of melody) el pueblo unido jamas sera vencido el pueblo unido jamas sera vencido |