The Presidio 27

I believe I'm alive

I'm the river, I'm the child

Like a coward at the frontline

To be gone

They were right, they were wrong

Singing "We shall overcome"

Blood is running in the jailhouse

On and on

Sons were dying, mother's crying

Crime or suicide?

Twenty seven souls from heaven

Pride was in their eyes

Presidio cries

Father, send me a prayer

I'll be strapped into the chair

We are traitors of the nation

They declared

On the squares in the yards

Words are stronger than the gun

And this muting based on justice

To be won

Sons were dying, mother's crying

Crime or suicide?

Twenty seven souls from heaven

Pride was in their eyes

Presidio cries

Sons were dying, mother's crying

Crime or suicide?

Twenty seven souls from heaven

Pride was in their eyes

Presidio cries

Sons were dying, mother's crying

Crime or suicide?

Twenty seven souls from heaven

Pride was in their eyes

Presidio cries