Bruce Cockburn – If I Had A Rocket Launcher (Guitar)

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Em 079900
D/E     077700
Cmaj7   879000  or  870000
Am7 5x5555 Bm7 7x7777 [Verse 1]
Em              D/E    Cmaj7
Here comes the helicopter

Em          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  Bm7
Only God can say  
[Chorus 1]
Am7               Bm7
If I had a rocket launcher

Am7               Bm7
If I had a rocket launcher

Am7               Bm7
If I had a rocket launcher

                  Em
I'd make somebody pay
Em D/E Cmaj7 Em D/E Cmaj7 [Verse 2]
Em                  D/E    Cmaj7
I don't believe in guarded borders 

Em              D    Cmaj7
and I don't believe in hate

Em              D    Cmaj7
I don't believe in generals 

Em                   D    Cmaj7
or their stinking torture states

Em                     D    Cmaj7
And when I talk with the survivors 

Em                     D    Cmaj7  Bm7
of things too sickening to relate
[Chorus 2]
Am7               Bm7
If I had a rocket launcher

Am7               Bm7
If I had a rocket launcher

Am7               Bm7
If I had a rocket launcher

              Em
I would retaliate
[Verse 3]
Em           D    Cmaj7
On the Rio Lacuntun 

Em              D    Cmaj7
one hundred thousand wait

Em              D    Cmaj7
To fall down from starvation 

Em             D    Cmaj7
or some less humane fate

Em          D    Cmaj7
Cry for Guatemala 

Em               D    Cmaj7  Bm7
with a corpse in every gate

Am7               Bm7
If I had a rocket launcher

Am7               Bm7
If I had a rocket launcher

Am7               Bm7
If I had a rocket launcher

                  Em
I would not hesitate
[Instrumental] Em D/E Cmaj7 (4x) [Verse 4]
Em              D    Cmaj7
I want to raise every voice, 

Em              D    Cmaj7
at least I've got to try

Em              D    Cmaj7
Every time I think about it 

Em              D    Cmaj7
water rises to my eyes

Em              D    Cmaj7
Situation desperate 

Em              D    Cmaj7 Bm7
echoes of the victim's cry
[Chorus 3]
Am7               Bm7
If I had a rocket launcher

Am7               Bm7
If I had a rocket launcher

Am7               Bm7
If I had a rocket launcher

                          Em
Some son-of-a-bitch would die
[Outro] Em D/E Cmaj7 Em D/E Cmaj7 Em D/E Cmaj7 Bm7 Am7 G Em