Dice are rolling, the knives are out
Would-be presidents are all around
I don't say they mean harm
But they'd each give an arm
To see us six feet underground
It doesn't matter what those morons say
Our nation's leaders are a feeble crew
There's only twenty of them anyway
What is twenty next to millions who are looking to you?
All you have to do is sit and wait
Keeping out of everybody's way
We'll...
You'll be handed power
I...
On a plate
When the ones who matter have their say
And with chaos installed
You can reluctantly agree to be called
There again we could be foolish
Not to quit while we're ahead
For distance lends enchantment
And that is why
All exile
Are distinguished
More important
They're not dead
I could find
Job satisfaction
In Paraguay
This is crazy
Defeat is talk
Why commit political suicide
There's no risk
There's no call for any action at all
When you have unions on your side
Tehran
Tehran
Tehran
Tehran
Tehran
Tehran
A new Argentina
The chains of the masses untied
A new Argentina
The voice of the people
Cannot be denied
There is only one man
Who can lead any workers' regime
He lives for your problems
He shares your ideals and your dream
He supports you, for he loves you
Understands you, is one of you
If not, how could he love me?
A new Argentina
A workers' battle song
A new Argentina
A workers' battle song

The voice of the people
Brings out loud and loud
Now I am a worker
I've suffered the way that you do
I've been unemployed and I've starved
And I've hated it too
But I found my salvation
In Peter, made a nation
Let him save them as he saved me
A new Argentina
A new age about to begin
A new Argentina
We face the world together
And no dissent within
Nationalization of the industries
That the foreigners control
Anticipation in the profits
That we make
Shorter hours
Higher wages
Foods for women
More judos
More public spending
A bigger slice of every cake
It's annoying that we have to
Fight elections for our cause
The inconvenience
Having to get a majority
If normal methods of persuasion
Fail to win us applause
There are other ways of establishing
A new Argentina
We have ways of making you vote for us
Or at least of making you abstain
Perón has resigned from the army
And this we avow
The descamisadas are those
He is marching with now
He supports you
For he loves you
Understands you
Is one of you
If not, how could he love me?
A new Argentina
The chains of the masses
Are tied
A new Argentina
The voice of the people
Cannot be
And will not be
And must not be
Denied
There again we are
We could be foolish
Not to quit
While we're ahead
I can see me
Many miles away
Inactive
Sipping cocktails
On a terrace
Taking breakfast
In bed
Sleeping easy
Doing crosswords
It's attractive
Don't think I don't think like you
I often think like you
And get those nightmares too
They always take some swallowing
Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum
If it's you that you are following
Don't close doors
Keep an escape clause
Because we might lose the Big Apple
But what I have done
What I did
If I hadn't thought
If I hadn't known
We would take the country
It's nowhere on my mind
And let us drive
Babe that's right
To believe
That we can


And our hopes
Because we are the
© transcript Emily Beynon