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Following are the lyrics to "Eliancito":
Let little Elian Gonzalez go
Home to Cuba, let the little boy go
Back home to his papa,
His grandmas and his grandpas,
Gotta send the little boy back home.
Chorus:
Time to let Eliancito go
Home to Cuba, let the little boy go
Can you imagine just how sad he
Feels without his Daddy
(Got to) let Eliancito go.
2nd Chorus:
We gotta stop - stop - the blockade of Cuba
Stop - stop - the blockade of Cuba
Stop - stop - the blockade of Cuba
Time to let Eliancito go.
Washed overboard on the stormy sea
A long way from his family
Holdin' on to an inner tube
With the fightin' spirit of a Cuban
That was his destiny.
- Chorus -
Elian survived the waters cold
And he's only just six years old,
And after all that danger
He's kidnapped by some strangers,
Held hostage by the Gusanos.
- Chorus -
- 2nd Chorus -
Elian was rescued from the deep
Now he's surrounded by those right-wing creeps
The crazies in Miami
Don't care about the family
Gotta set little Elian free (now is the
time to)
- Chorus -
It's time to learn to live and let live now
It's time to love thy neighbor somehow
Uncle Sam throws his weight around
The Cold War has stayed around
Forty-seven years too long.
Time to let Eliancito go
Home to Cuba, let the little boy go,
The embargo is a crime,
and now is the time,
To let little Eliancito go.
© Dave Welsh, 1999