"If one needed a reason to needed an example of why there wasn't a Nicaraguan revolution, you can look at the situation in Guatemala, because the situation is, if anything, worse than what was happening in Nicaragua under Somosa, has been for the last 30 years. from "The Long March of Bruce Cockburn: From Folkie to Rocker, Singing About Injustice" by Richard Harrington, Washington Post, 19 October 1984.
"In fact, I almost didn't put 'Rocket Launcher' on the album because of the ease with which it could be misinterpreted." "I don't consciously or not consciously write certain kinds of songs," Cockburn says. "One is directly responsible for the other," he says, though he insists neither commitment defines his work. "I can't imagine writing it under any other conditions." Īccording to Cockburn, "the idea was to reach a different audience than the politicians by having us go and observe, using the relative visibility that we have to educate the Canadian public to what we had seen and to raise money for projects that OXFAM has in the region." "Aside from airing my own experience, which is where the songs always start, if we're ever going to find a solution for this ongoing passion for wasting each other, we have to start with the rage that knows no impediments, an uncivilized rage that says it's okay to go out and shoot some one." Thanks to David Newton for sending this in. Along with "I Fought The Law" and "Nowhere To Run" among others, it was not successful because of complaints from the Ambassador. Known comments by Bruce Cockburn about this song, by date:Įditorial note: According to an article called "Hell Fire!" by Bridget Freer, FHM magazine, December 1999 issue, "If I Had A Rocket Launcher" was one of the songs played at high volume outside the Vatican Embassy in Panama City in 1989, in order to drive out Manuel Noriega. If I had a rocket launcher.Some son of a bitch would die Situation desperate, echoes of the victims cry I want to raise every voice - at least I've got to tryĮvery time I think about it water rises to my eyes. If I had a rocket launcher.I would not hesitate To fall down from starvation - or some less humane fateĬry for guatemala, with a corpse in every gate On the Rio Lacantun, one hundred thousand wait
If I had a rocket launcher.I would retaliate I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture statesĪnd when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate If I had a rocket launcher.I'd make somebody pay How many kids they've murdered only God can say Here comes the helicopter - second time todayĮverybody scatters and hopes it goes away Rumours of Glory - box set Disc 3 (2014) Bruce Cockburn - Songs - If I Had A Rocket Launcher SONGS:įebruary and April 1983.
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