Bruce Cockburn (pronounced "CO-burn") (born May 27, 1945 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) has had a long and distinguished career, with much success in his native Canada. He has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll. Cockburn was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2012 he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (in Canada the award was to honour "significant contributions and achievements by Canadians").
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If I Had a Rocket Launcher Bruce Cockburn Standard Tuning
Em 079900 D/E 077700 Cmaj7 879000 or 870000 Cmaj7/A 505500 D/B 757700
EmD/ECmaj7 Here comes the helicopter
EDCmaj7 Second time today
EmDCmaj7 Everybody scatters
EmDCmaj7 And hopes it goes away
EmDCmaj7 How many kids they've murdered
EmDCmaj7 Only God can say
Cmaj7/AD/B If I had a rocket launcher
Cmaj7/AD/B If I had a rocket launcher
Cmaj7/AD/B If I had a rocket launcher
Cmaj7/AD/B If I had a rocket launcher
Cmaj7/AD/B I'd make somebody pay
EmD/ECmaj7 EmD/ECmaj7
I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate
If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher I would retaliate
On the Rio Lacuntun one hundred thousand wait To fall down from starvation or some less humane fate Cry for Guatemala with a corpse in every gate
If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher I would not hesitate
Instrumental...EmD/ECmaj7 (4x)
I want to raise every voice, at least I've got to try Every time I think about it water rises to my eyes Situation desperate echoes of the victim's cry
If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher Some son-of-a-bitch would die