An Interlude-beginning To Take It Back Lyrics - Chumbawamba

Words to describe Nicaragua of old 

Cash crops and hunger and US control 

Coffee and sugar on company land 

Made to supply what the boss would demand 

Then one July morning in seventy-nine 

Nicaragua decided to leave it behind 

(Chorus) 

And the people are learning to take back their lives 

As the country will change, Sandinista survives 

Women are winning what they've never known 

The power to organize outside the home 

Starting to find what is equal and fair 

Ensuring that this revolution is shared 

Regaining lost chances, demanding much more 

Running the factories, fighting the war 

(Repeat chorus) 

Nobody claims that it's over and done 

There's too much depends on enlistment and guns 

And raising their children and filling their plates 

And chasing the Contras to Washington State 

The Yankee conspiracy thrown to the ground 

That's where the spirit of change can be found 

(Repeat chorus)