It Could Have Been Me
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Students in Ohio, 200 yards away
Shot down by a nameless fire one early day in May
Some people cried out angry, "You should have shot more of them down"
But you can't bury youth, my friend
Youth grows the whole world around
It could have been me, but instead it was you
So I'll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were too
I'll be a student of life, a singer of songs
A farmer of food and the 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 die for freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom
If you can die for freedom, I can too
The junta took the fingers from Victor Jara's hands
They said to the gentle poet, "Play your guitar now if you can"
Well 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 around
And it could have been me, but instead it was you
So I'll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were too
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 sing for freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom
If you can sing for freedom, I can too
A woman in the jungle so many wars away
Studies late into the night, defends a 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 'til she's free
It could have been me, but instead it was you
So I'll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were too
I'll be a student of life, a singer of songs
A farmer of food and the 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
The songs of Nicaragua and El Salvador
Will long outlast the singers who face the guns in war
They sing at the line of fire and they sing from a fire within
All across the land the poets stand
El pueblo unido jamΓ‘s serΓ‘ vencido
El pueblo unido jamΓ‘s serΓ‘ vencido
It could have been me, but instead it was you
So I'll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were too
I'll be a student of life, a singer of songs
A farmer of food and the righter of wrong
Oh, it could have been me, but instead it was you
And it may be we, dear sisters and brothers, before we are through
But if you can sing for freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom
If you can sing for freedom, I can too
Shot down by a nameless fire one early day in May
Some people cried out angry, "You should have shot more of them down"
But you can't bury youth, my friend
Youth grows the whole world around
It could have been me, but instead it was you
So I'll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were too
I'll be a student of life, a singer of songs
A farmer of food and the 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 die for freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom
If you can die for freedom, I can too
The junta took the fingers from Victor Jara's hands
They said to the gentle poet, "Play your guitar now if you can"
Well 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 around
And it could have been me, but instead it was you
So I'll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were too
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 sing for freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom
If you can sing for freedom, I can too
A woman in the jungle so many wars away
Studies late into the night, defends a 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 'til she's free
It could have been me, but instead it was you
So I'll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were too
I'll be a student of life, a singer of songs
A farmer of food and the 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
The songs of Nicaragua and El Salvador
Will long outlast the singers who face the guns in war
They sing at the line of fire and they sing from a fire within
All across the land the poets stand
El pueblo unido jamΓ‘s serΓ‘ vencido
El pueblo unido jamΓ‘s serΓ‘ vencido
It could have been me, but instead it was you
So I'll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were too
I'll be a student of life, a singer of songs
A farmer of food and the righter of wrong
Oh, it could have been me, but instead it was you
And it may be we, dear sisters and brothers, before we are through
But if you can sing for freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom
If you can sing for freedom, I can too