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)