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Elisabeth Gerle: It Could Have Been Me
It Could have Been Me
Text och musik: Holly Near (Hereford Music ASCAP)
Chorus It could have been me, but instead it was you so I'll keep doing the things 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 brothers before we are through but if you can work for freedom freedom, freedom, freedom if you can work for freedom I can too
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
Chorus If you can die for freedom I can too
Verse The junta took the fingers from Victor Jara's hands they said to the gentle poet "play your guitar now if you can" then Victor started singing until they shot his body down you can kill a man but not a song when it's sung the whole world round
Chorus If you can sing for freedom I can too
Verse 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
Chorus If you can live for freedom I can too you can too we can too
1988. All rights reserved.
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