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El Salvador

Christy Moore19 Apr 2016

El Salvador Lyrics

A girl cries in the early morning

Woken by the sound of a gun

 

She knows somewhere somebody,s dying

 

Beneath the rising sun

 

Outside the window of her cabaa

The shadows are full of her fears

 

She knows her lover is out there somewhere

 

He,s been on the run for a year

 

Oh, the soul of El Salvador

Bells ring out in the chapel steeple

A priest prepares to say mass

 

The sad congregation come tired and hungry

 

To pray that trouble will pass

 

Meanwhile the sun rises over the dusty streets

Where his crowd gathers round.

 

Flies and mosquitoes are drinking from pools of blood

Where the boby is found

 

Oh, the soul of El Salvador

 

Out on the ranch the rich man,s preparing

To go for his morning ride

 

They,ve saddled his horse out in the corral

He walks out full of pride

 

He looks like a cowboy from one of those pictures

A president made in the past

 

Peasants in rags, the stand back for they know

That El Rico travels fast

 

Over the soul of El Salvador

 

A girl cries in the early morning

Woken by the sound of a gun

 

She knows somewhere somebody,s dying

 

Beneath the rising sun

 

Outside the window of her cabaa

The shadows are full of her fears

 

She knows her lover is out there somewhere

He,s been on the run for a year

 

Oh, the soul of El Salvador

 

Oh, the soul of El Salvador

 

 

Oh, the soul of El Salvador

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