Let My People Be

After the thunder Jets from the junta Over the countryside See my amigo He got the fever Shelter him here tonight On the estates And in the plantations Settlements far and wide Convoy arriving Son disappearing Children afraid to cry Let my people be Thirty years of empty declarations Set my people free Hounded down in towns across the nation How long will it take How long do we wait? High wind arising Out on the pampas Villages lying awake Pretty Pepito Why are you weeping? Friends are not far away Rumour this evening Government gunboat Sunk on the river today In the Sierras Something is stirring Liberty blowing our way Let my people be Thirty years of empty declarations Set my people free Hounded down in towns across the nation How long will it take How long do we wait? --- Let My People Be - Tom Robinson Band