Bruce Cockburn - If I Had A Rocket Launcher video free download

thebigcoyoteman

After some thirty years since this song was released, does a Drone replace the rocket launcher or the helicopter

SLACKER614

I would lay to waste all 'no-go' zones in Europe and their illegal colonizers….Waste em all...

DiSTRACTiON channel

...iF ! ;(((......

Linda Jones

@ Barry Davis......Yes, we are fortunate to have Healthcare in Australia. We also have an extremely low incidence of gun related crime, (let alone killings) thanks to a radical amendment to our gun laws in 1996. I only wish it hadn't taken a massacre to cause these amendments. IMHO, the USA gun laws are nothing short of ludicrous. A child could work out that less guns = less gun crime, yet American kids are packing guns along with their lunch boxes. To take pride in the fact that 99% of Americans own guns is surely a very shallow victory? 

20cher09

I've been wondering where the Helicopters are.

GARY THE CROW

Powerful..man !!

rick davis

.50 cal for isis. vevo still sux. g5theoldmaninthecave

Riel Boire

Hey,I wonder if your there bruce.I always liked this song.I am a muscian too well, amateur I guess.If you google riel boire-the song-denise or the song sound,love and metal there are a few but, some videos will come up.I remember seeing this video in the 80,s.It is still great.Keep Rocking Bruce.

Barry Davis

Commenting again USA has the most gun related mass shootings than all other democratic countries. AK45- semi automatics , and other weapons of this type are "right to bare arms". USA IS FUCKED UP!

Barry Davis

If someone had a rocket launcher and used it to kill a bunch of people -he could get away with it claiming right to bare arms. It works with AK45 and other same type weapons doesn't it?

karen saville

IF I HAD A ROCKER LAUNCHER<<<

Lee Down

Bruce, I hope you're writing some new shit. We need it man.

John Dough

Honey, I shrunk the kids. Then wrote a war protest song.

pm2.5

Nostalgic; the title and chorus were memorable for someone growing up on early-mid 80s rock radio in Vancouver. Listening now, it's a sad song... and from a musical point of view, the rhythms are off at the micro level. Not that the average listener would notice... 

Justin Tomlinson

*bruce cockburn - if i had a rocket launcher*[1984]hey kiddies, its time to grow up now and drop that steaming pile o' stinky *bieeeeeeber* guano you've been cupping in your hands like so many bad habits and feast your eardrums on some *real* canadian musics by a *real* canadian *man*. amirite, +Debs Wombat?... ;P 

ShikataGaNai100

Bruce played a different kind of Christian music...about the real, not some pseudo-pious bullshit.

pamela wilson

If you want to hear what Bruce Cockburn himself says about the song, as well as read the lyrics, go to The Bruce Cockburn Project; it has some great quotes and research. "When I wrote the song," Cockburn stated,"it was an expression of those feelings, but I didn’t want to incite people to go down there and kill Guatemalan soldiers…"-- Cleveland Free Times, 2001. And in a March 2002 interview in the Edmonton Sun, Cockburn commented on NOT playing “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” around 9/11/2002: "I think it's the wrong emotional climate, especially in the U.S. right now. People will hear it the wrong way, and I don't want to run the risk of feeding a body of emotion that I don't want to trip up." Later, he says: "I'm not a pacifist. You don't have to be a pacifist to think peace is better than war. There's just a best way to go about things."He’s a complicated man, and it’s a complicated song. I personally read it as, this is how you feel when you see human beings hurt so badly—you want to defend them. It’s very, very easy to tip into violence from a place of compassion. And the ethics are not simple at all. With Love, Namaste, Pam

annlombardi1

mr. cockburn must be mourning the loss of his orthodontist-eh 

Lance Steinke

What IS the context of this song?

Charles Chandler

Here comes the helicopter -- second time today Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away How many kids they've murdered only God can say If I had a rocket launcher...I'd make somebody pay 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...I would retaliate On the Rio Lacantun, 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...I would not hesitate 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 victims cry If I had a rocket launcher...Some son of a bitch would die..!.. ...........:)O(:...........

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