A New Argentina - Original Cast Recording/1979

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
 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
 There again we could be foolish not to quit while we're ahead
 I can see us many miles away, inactive
 Sipping cocktails on a terrace, taking breakfast in bed
 Sleeping easy, doing nothing, 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
 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 you
 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 must not be denied
 How annoying that they have to fight elections for their cause
 The inconvenience, having to get a majority
 If normal methods of persuasion fail to win them applause
 There are other ways of establishing authority
 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