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.

The one July morning in '79,
Nicaragua decided to leave it behind...

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 organise outside the home.
Starting to find what is equal and fair,
Ensuring that this revolution is shared.

And the people are learning to take back their lives,
As the country will change, Sandinista survives.

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.

And the people are learning to take back their lives,
As the country will change, Sandinista survives.