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Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Canonical path: /cockburn-bruce/burn
Related lyric paths: 6
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Burn
Read Burn lyrics by Bruce Cockburn on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Burn
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look away across the bay
yankee gunboat come this way
Uncle Sam gonna save the day
come tomorrow we all gonna pay
(Chorus:) and it's burn baby burn
when am I going to get my turn
something dead under the bed
local diplomats hang their heads
never mind what the government said
they're either lying or they've been misled
(chorus)
Phillipines was yesterday
Santiago and Greece today
how would they ever make
the late news pay
if they didn't have the CIA?
(chorus)
here it comes, the loaded gun
"must keep the commies on the run"
you'd buy or bury everyone
for liberty and life
and just plain fun
(chorus)
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Bruce Cockburn performs "Burn", and this lyric page sits inside the Bruce Cockburn catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to All The Ways I Want You and Don't Feel Your Touch with a short reason for opening each page next.
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