Happy Birthday Revolution Lyrics - Levellers

Car horns and rumba music 

Through the city's broken heart 

Is this the devil's 

Own back yard 

It was forty years ago 

That the gangster he fell 

To a rag, bag of men 

The world remembers well 

Happy Birthday Revolution 

Happy Birthday Revolution 

I'm standing here 

Watching the world fall apart 

Watching the world fall apart 

Our leader he was young 

Gallant and divine 

It was the age 

Of blood and romance 

They shot him in Bolivia 

No tear did we cry 

For how many men 

Can choose the way that they die 

Happy Birthday Revolution 

Happy Birthday Revolution 

I'm standing here 

Watching the world fall apart 

Watching the world fall apart 

We paint him on buildings 

With sadness in his eyes 

If we suffer hungry days 

Then we call it sacrifice 

Some say his dream is full of holes 

We have dignity and pride 

We have independence 

Or is it just a Yankee lie 

Happy Birthday Revolution 

Happy Birthday Revolution 

I'm standing here 

Watching the world fall apart 

Watching the world fall apart 

Happy Birthday Revolution 

Happy Birthday Revolution 

Happy Birthday Revolution 

Happy Birthday Revolution 

Happy Birthday Revolution 

I'm standing here 

Watching the world fall apart 

Watching the world fall apart 

Just watching the world fall apart