Why do your warships ride on my waters
Why do these bombs fall down from the sky
Why do you burn my towns and my cities
I'd like to know I'd like to know
I'd like to know friend I'd like to know
Hungry lips ask me wherever I go
Comrades and friends fallen around me
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You locked me in jail you threw me in prison
Your hospital packed your asylums are full
Where is my food my soap and my warm clothes
I'd like to know I'd like to know
Why are your warships all death to my people
Nitro explosives cannons and bombs
Where have you taken my sons and my daughters
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