LAMENT FOR CHILE

Words & Music: Phyl Lobl

A few days after Allende and democracy died in Chile I used a song to ask questions. They were later answered in the way we thought they would be. Geri Lobl's knowledge of the ways of the world was a strong influence on the song's development.

Download Song

Lyrics

Time has passed, the dream has ended,
Santiago grief I feel your hand.
Hear the shots and fear their echo,
Stars and stripes make shadows on the land.

Bright hope for man has gone,
In prison cells dissenters lie.
Mourn Allende, mourn your dead democracy,
The eagle's wings are stained with blood,
Once more the people die.

Brazil was taken by the generals,
in Uruguay the army won.
Pinochet has taken Chile,
did the CIA men load the gun?

Bright hope for man has gone,
In prison cells dissenters lie.
Mourn Allende, mourn your dead democracy,
The eagle's wings are stained with blood,
Once more the people die.

Is the eagle changed to serpent,
lending poison out with flags all furled?
Fangs can be as sharp as talons,
but not so easily noticed by the world.

Bright hope for man has gone,
In prison cells dissenters lie.
Mourn Allende, mourn your dead democracy,
The eagle's wings are stained with blood,
Once more the people die.

More than life lost at Moneda,
a martyred man will serve you still.
But peaceful change was blindly murdered,
the message taught was when you win, you kill.

Bright hope for man has gone,
In prison cells dissenters lie.
Mourn Allende, mourn your dead democracy,
The eagle's wings are stained with blood,
Once more the people die.

MENU

Lament for Chile

Lyrics

Copyright © 2019 phyllobl.net. All Rights Reserved. © Copyright remains with Phyl Lobl and acknowledgement of the source of the material where ever it is used would be appreciated.