Third World Warrior

Don't you like to see the hero take his licks like a man
Stand up and be tested and be true ?
Would you like to be a hero in your life ? well you can
Did you know it's up to you ?

Would you trade your place with jesus on the cross if you could
Shining through eternity ?
Would it bother you to know that you can be just as good
As you really want to be ?

And if you're bound to do your duty then it's time that you do
Look your future in the face
For the most important person in the world, which is you,
Or the whole damn human race

Chorus:
There's a holy band of angels flying high through the night
Where no mortal ever trod
Singing holy, holy, holy, holy, oh, jesus christ
Is the lord almighty god


You see, the good thing is you don't have to be as good as jesus to
Start out with
All you gotta do ask yourself, how would gary cooper have done it
Or john kennedy
Or martin luther king
Or malcom x ?

Chorus:
There's a holy band of angels flying high through the night
Where no mortal ever trod
Singing holy, holy, holy, holy, oh, jesus christ
Is the lord almighty god

Mr. money man, i know you've had your way
And i know the way you're winning
And that bloody hand you're holding
Ain't no bargain at the price you had to pay

You have stolen all the land that you can steal
And you killed so many heroes
But the dreams they left behind them
Ain't as easy as a man to blow away

Chorus:
And they say, "el mal sacate ni el fuego lo quema"
And los mexicanos dicen, "cosa mala nunca muere"
Don't you know ?

The fire don't burn a bad weed boy
And a bad thing never dies
Like the bad weeds growing wild around
The broken wounded body of el salvador

They killed so many heroes
Like zapata (presente!) and fonseca (presente!)
And sandino (presente!) and guevarra (presente!)
And allende (presente!) and aquino (presente!)
And steve biko (presente!)
But they can never kill the human spirit
Not in nicaragua !

Chorus:
And they say, "el mal sacate ni el fuego lo quema"
And los mexicanos dicen, "cosa mala nunca muere"
Don't you know ?

Aiiiiiaiiiaiiiiii nicaragua !
Aiiiiiaiiiaiiiiii sandinista !

Did anybody see them ?
I heard there was a baby
Somebody heard her crying
Weaker through the night

They beat her mama bloody
And shot her with her daddy
It was the terror from above
El aguila del norte


Down in nicaragua
Running from the shadows
Striking holy terror
Deeper in the heart

You believe in freedom
And you believe in justice
But not in nicaragua
Not in nicaragua


Aguila del norte
We can see your power
And the beauty of your freedom
What is in your heart ?

You believe in honor
And you believe in jesus
But not in nicaragua
Not in nicaragua

He was walking with your brother on the streets of alabama
He was marching next to martin when he died
Working face to face in cuba and managua nicaragua
He did not yet beat the devil, but he tried

Chorus:
Hold on brother, jesse jackson
There's a better world a'coming
Where a man can hope a man will show some heart
You just keep right on believing
In the better side of human
They ain't ready for it yet, but it's a start
And you move'em when you hit'em in the heart

We must bring it all together we must start right from the bottom
Back to helping one another when we can
'cause if he's hungry and he's human and he's fighting for his freedom
Then he shouldn't be too hard to understand

Chorus:
Hold on brother, jesse jackson
There's a better world a'coming
Where a man can hope a man will show some heart
You just keep right on believing
In the better side of human
They ain't ready for you yet, but it's a start
And you move'em when you hit'em in the heart

Chorus:
Hold on brother, jesse jackson
There's a better world a'coming
Where a man can hope a man will show some heart
You just keep right on believing
In the better side of human
They ain't ready for you yet, but it's a start
And you move'em when you hit'em in the heart

I will fight and i will die for freedom
Up against an eagle or a bear
And i will help my brother and we'll sink or swim together
And if you don't like it mister i don't care

'cause i have served with honor in the army
I have seen a soldier overseas
I have seen my fatherland stagger like a dying man
Blinded and bewildered by disease

And i ain't gonna take it any longer
I can't look around it anymore
I'll defend what i believe in a land of liberty
Like my father did before

Chorus:
And i'll just pray to god for nicaragua
And the sorrow of el salvador today
And i'll say until the day we free mandela
All the world will be in chains