Milnoque
Resident Curmudgeon
I wrote this in the Eighties. At the time the big world crisis was in El Salvador. The country was ruled by a dictator named Magana. He was opposed by a rebel group that called themselves the Sandinistas that had formed in Nicaragua. I started thinking about all the people there that were not caught up in the fight.
It's done with a reggae feel
Make me free
I don't know nothin' bout the government
Got no notion what the future holds for me
Don't give a damn what happens in San Salvador
Just let me and my kinfolk be
Magana's man come and he say he's gonna make me free
Some soldiers come take my only cow
Gonna feed the men, they never tell who's side they are on
Got a boy on the right and a boy on the left
They're shooting at each other, one of them boys be gone
Sandinista man come and he say he's gonna make me free
Smoke from the corn stink the morning haze
The air gets in your eyes and it burns all day
A thousand eyes see nothing but eternity
They don't see the flies, or the women going gray
Soldier man come and he say he's gonna make me free
Soldier man come and he say he's gonna make me free
Soldier man come and he say he's gonna make me free
Soldier man come and he say he's gonna make me free
It's done with a reggae feel
Make me free
I don't know nothin' bout the government
Got no notion what the future holds for me
Don't give a damn what happens in San Salvador
Just let me and my kinfolk be
Magana's man come and he say he's gonna make me free
Some soldiers come take my only cow
Gonna feed the men, they never tell who's side they are on
Got a boy on the right and a boy on the left
They're shooting at each other, one of them boys be gone
Sandinista man come and he say he's gonna make me free
Smoke from the corn stink the morning haze
The air gets in your eyes and it burns all day
A thousand eyes see nothing but eternity
They don't see the flies, or the women going gray
Soldier man come and he say he's gonna make me free
Soldier man come and he say he's gonna make me free
Soldier man come and he say he's gonna make me free
Soldier man come and he say he's gonna make me free