Old song I wrote, Thought I'd see what you thought

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
 
Yep . . . it reads well to me. The phrasing and language is well-suited to a reggae feel. I reckon this would scrub up well. I'd continue with it, but with one reservation. Given that the song reflects politics of the eighties, how relevant would it be now?
 
It's relevant, But you have a point. Perhaps I should re-cobble it to reference an even older conflict.
 
You could change about 3 words and make it about either Iraq or Afghanistan.

What does that say about our world? Hmmm.

-Mike
 
That's why I thought about going back to it. I imagine most of the general population north and south during our civil war felt the same way.
 
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