A New Argentina

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 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 exiles are distinguished, more important, they're not dead
 I could find job satisfaction in Paraguay
 This is crazy defeatist 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
 Peron! Peron!
 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, the workers' battle song
 A new Argentina, the voice of the people
 Rings out loud and long
 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 Peron, may the 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
 Participation in the profits that we make
 Shorter hours
 Higher wages
 Votes for women
 Larger dole
 More public spending
 A bigger slice of every cake
 How annoying that we have to fight elections for their cause
 The inconvenience, having to get a majority
 If normal methods of persuasion fail to win us applause
 There are other ways of establishing authority
 We have ways of making you vote for us, or at least of making you abstain
 Peron has resigned from the army and this we avow
 The descamisados are those he is marching with now!
 He supports you for he loves you, understands you, is one of your
 If not--how could he love me?
 A new Argentina!
 The chains of the masses untied!
 A new Argentina!
 The voice of the people cannot be, and will not be, and must not be, denied!
 There again 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 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--would I have done, what I did
 If I hadn't thought, if I hadn't known
 We would take the country?
 A new Argentina!
 The chains of the masses untied!
 A new Argentina!
 The voice of the people cannot be, and will not be, and must not be, denied!