There's a sunny little country south of Mexico   Where the winds are gentle and the waters flow   But breezes aren't the only things that blow   In El Salvador      If you took the little lady for a moonlight drive   Odds are still good you'd come back alive   But everyone is innocent until they arrive   In El Salvador      If the rebels take a bus on the grand highway   The government destroys a village miles away   The man on the radio says   "Now we'll play 'South of the Borde'"      And in the morning the natives say   "We're happy you have lived another day   Last night a thousand more passed away   In El Salvador"      There's a television crew here from ABC   Filming Rio Lempe and the refugees   Calling murdered children the 'Tragedy'   Of El Salvador      Before the government camera 20 feet away   Another man is asking for continued aid   Food and medicine and hand grenades   For El Salvador      There's a thump, a rumble, and the buildings sway   A soldier fires the acid spray   The public address system starts to play   'South of the Border'      You run for cover and hide your eyes   You hear the screams from paradise   They've fallen further than you realize   In El Salvador      Just like Poland is protected by her Russian friends   The junta is assisted by Americans   And if 60 million dollars seems too much to spend   In El Salvador      They say for half a billion they could do it right   Bomb all day and burn all night   Until there's not a living thing upright   In El Salvador      And they'll continue training troops in the USA   And watch the nuns that got away   And teach the military bands to play   South of the Border      Killed the people to set them free   Who put this price on their liberty   Don't you think it's time to leave   El Salvador?