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john mc cutcheon song from 1984
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no mas....indeed...when?

you can hear small sample of the song here:

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No Mas
Words & music by John McCutcheon

It's snowing in the valley, ice chokes the river's mouth
But the air is still and silent in the mountains to the south
Here the fire in the cookstove drives the winter's chill away
While the silent, southern sentries pass the watchful hours till day
From the mountains of Virginia to the hills of Salvador
The mothers and the fathers send their children off to war
And the hand that drove the plow is on the trigger in the night
Killing other sons and daughters, fighting someone else's fight

CHORUS

No mas, no more shout the hills of Salvador
Echo the mountains of Virginia, we cry out, "No mas, no more!"
No mas, no more shout the hills of Salvador
Compañeros, compañeras, we cry out, "No mas, no more!"

As the government of Poland looks to Moscow for her schemes
So the junto turns to Washington to work behind the scenes
The white hand of the death squads, the rumble of the tanks
Keeps the coffee on our tables and the money in our banks

CHORUS (in Spanish)

No swords shall turn to plowshares till the land is theirs to plow
Till the name is on the ballot that rots in the prison now
And the weapons of the victory shall be schools and food and jobs
And the song from every mountaintop is "Paz y Liberdad"

CHORUS

©1984 by John McCutcheon/Appalsongs (ASCAP).

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