El Salvador Songtext / Lyric

He could barely remember

When the fighting began

It was early September

When he lost his old man

Soon (the time) came to leave there

And (to start) a new life

How it seems so unfair

When they (gave him a gun and a knife)

So he fights with a gun in his hand

For what reason he can't understand

Fights with a gun in his hand

For (the) freedom (of the land)






Can you hear the crying out

All the people in El Salvador

Can you hear a distant shout

From the people in El Salvador

(cross your heart and hope to die)

For the people in El Salvador

Still they kill not knowing why

All the people in El Salvador



As he stares at the ceiling

He thinks back quite a ways

It was (him that was) feeling

tellin' you those were the days

As he stares at a white dove

Tears fall down on his face

An then once filled with love that only God his self can replace



So he fights with a gun in his hand

For what reason he can't understand

Fights with a gun in his hand

For (the) freedom (of the land)



Can you hear the crying out

All the people in El Salvador

Can you hear a distant shout

From the people in El Salvador



Can you hear them cry?

Can you see them die?

Can you tell me why? Oh no

See them die, hear them cry, tell me why