¿dónde está mi padre?
¿dónde está mi mamá?
¿dónde está mi hermana?
¿dónde está mi familia?
¿dónde está el amigo?
Where’s my Dad?
Not the same man
As my new sister’s Dad.
He walked out and left
Just like her’s will
Mama can’t cope –
A dollar a day
Don’t pay the way
Mama’s at her wit’s end
Takes us all to see a ‘friend’
Where’s the friend?
Where’s my mama?
Where’s my new sister?
Where’s my family?
Where am I?
¿dónde está mi padre?
¿dónde está mi mamá?
¿dónde está mi hermana?
¿dónde está mi familia?
¿dónde está el amigo?
Another street boy
Found left all alone
Sleeping in alleyways
Left to fend alone
‘Cause his Mama can’t cope
Such a happy face
Now he’s found a new home
Here in the boy’s centre
With so many others
Abandoned like him
Such happy faces
Must capture images
Snap, snap, snap, snap
Take the film to the store
“Why pictures of street boys”
Says the man behind the counter
Why waste film on them
I have a solution
“One bullet per head”
Policewoman calls at boy’s centre,
“please take these three boys in”
“I’ve been ordered to disappear them”
“But I need to know they’re cared for”
“Better for them to ‘disappear’ here”
“Than to be left in the desert to starve”
Where’s my Dad?
Where’s my Mama?
Where’s my new sister?
Where’s my family?
Here in the boy’s centre
I’ve got a new home
I’ve got a new family
Saved from one bullet per head
In the city
In the desert
In the mountains
In the jungle
Where’s my Mama?
Why did she abandon me?
Why do all these Gringos care?
Why do they want to stop
The bullets to the heads?
¿dónde está mi padre?
¿dónde está mi mamá?
¿dónde está mi hermana?
¿dónde está mi familia?
¿dónde está el amigo?
(inspired by my experiences when visiting Peru with The Vine Trust, particularly by conversations with Paul Clark, details of his work with Union Biblica Del Peru can be found in this book – http://www.bpsbooks.com/southern-cross-lost-and-found-paul-clark/ )
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