Right out of the CIA handbook
for counterrevolutionary warfare
First people to target
Take out the folksinger
What is a song of the heart
A song of the heart of the people?
Full of anger or full of hope
Full of potential liberation
Given freely a melody
Like the only sustenance
to feed a starving nation
which has much fruit
Making it vulnerable to vultures
to multinationals, to sex tourism,
to crime syndicates and
all poisons of the invader
There is always the folksinger
singing the life back into the minds
singing and picking the true story blues
A historian of wrongs
that beg to righted
To a people who must be united
Keeping alive the ones who are lost
A warning to folks not to fall
for their tricks
as they recruit the traitors
How divine a sacrifice to fight,
even to die
for the life of the pueblo
To survive, and eventually thrive again
Yes, the voice and the mind
are a person's best weapons
Can change the world
I guess the CIA isn't stupid after all
