If I Had A Rocket Launcher (acoustic) Chords

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If I Had A Rocket Launcher (acoustic) by Bruce Cockburn is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, D/E, Cmaj7, E, D, Cmaj7/A and D/B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Em              D/E    Cmaj7 
Here comes the helicopter 

E      D     Cmaj7 
Second time today 

Em              D    Cmaj7 
Everybody scatters 

Em              D    Cmaj7 
And hopes it goes away 
  
Em              D    Cmaj7 
How many kids they've murdered 

Em              D    Cmaj7 
Only God can say   

Cmaj7/A                 D/B 
If I had a rocket launcher 

Cmaj7/A                 D/B 
If I had a rocket launcher 

Cmaj7/A                 D/B 
If I had a rocket launcher 

Cmaj7/A                 D/B 
If I had a rocket launcher 

Cmaj7/A                 D/B 
I'd make somebody pay 

Em              D/E    Cmaj7 
Em              D/E    Cmaj7 
  

I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate 
I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states 
And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate 

If I had a rocket launcher 
If I had a rocket launcher 
If I had a rocket launcher 
I would retaliate 

On the Rio Lacuntun one hundred thousand wait 
To fall down from starvation or some less humane fate 
Cry for Guatemala with a corpse in every gate 

If I had a rocket launcher 
If I had a rocket launcher 
If I had a rocket launcher 
I would not hesitate 

Instrumental Em              D/E    Cmaj7 (4x) 

I want to raise every voice, at least I've got to try 
Every time I think about it water rises to my eyes 
Situation desperate echoes of the victim's cry 

If I had a rocket launcher 
If I had a rocket launcher 
If I had a rocket launcher 
Some son-of-a-bitch would die 
    	

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