Her name was Margarita
And there wasn't no one sweeta
If you passed her on the street
You'd surely want to meet her.
If you ever saw those eyes
You'd know why all the guys
Wanted to know her.
She was raised by the projects
They were always short of money
But the way she smiled at me
It was sweeter than honey
If you ever meet
A girl who's half as sweet
You're a lucky guy.
She never knew her father
He couldn't stop his drinking
Her mother said, "Bill when I married you
I don't know what I was thinking"
She held her head up high and
Told old Bill goodbye
One Saturday night.
Her brother was hanging out
Cause there were no jobs here
So he signed up for the army
Just to get a career
One day an Iraqi gun
Took her mother's only son
From this sorrowful life.
Two years back
there was more bad news
When she found out her sister was shot
She nearly blew a fuse
There's so many guns around here
Mothers are living in fear
For their children's lives.
Well we got lucky
And her sister survived
But she thinks of all the guns
And all the lost lives
God gave us his only son
But you can hear the sound of a gun
Most Saturday nights
God gave us his only son
But the killing goes on
In this sorrowful life.
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