Chumbawamba - An Interlude: Beginning to Take It Back lyrics
[Chumbawamba - An Interlude: Beginning to Take It Back lyrics]
Words to describe Nicaragua of old
Cash crops and hunger and US control
Coffee and sugar on company land
Made to supply what the boss would demand
Then one July morning in '79
Nicaragua decided to leave it behind
And the people are learning to
Take back their lives
As the country will change
Sandinista survives
Women are winning what they've never known
The power to organize outside the home
Starting to find what is equal and fair
Ensuring that this revolution is shared
Regaining lost chances, demanding much more
Running the factories, fighting the war
And the people are learning to
Take back their lives
As the country will change
Sandinista survives
Nobody claims that it's over and done
There's too much depends on
Enlistment and guns
And raising their children and
Filling their plates
And chasing the Contras to Washington State
The Yankee conspiracy thrown to the ground
That's where the spirit of
Change can be found
And the people are learning to
Take back their lives
As the country will change
Sandinista survives
Cash crops and hunger and US control
Coffee and sugar on company land
Made to supply what the boss would demand
Then one July morning in '79
Nicaragua decided to leave it behind
And the people are learning to
Take back their lives
As the country will change
Sandinista survives
Women are winning what they've never known
The power to organize outside the home
Starting to find what is equal and fair
Ensuring that this revolution is shared
Regaining lost chances, demanding much more
Running the factories, fighting the war
And the people are learning to
Take back their lives
As the country will change
Sandinista survives
Nobody claims that it's over and done
There's too much depends on
Enlistment and guns
And raising their children and
Filling their plates
And chasing the Contras to Washington State
The Yankee conspiracy thrown to the ground
That's where the spirit of
Change can be found
And the people are learning to
Take back their lives
As the country will change
Sandinista survives