Allan Perks at The Bridge Folk Club – The Disappeared (Los Desaparacidos) (Wally Page)

Allan Perks at The Bridge Folk Club, 22 September 2025

The Disappeared (Los Desaparacidos) (Wally Page)

The music world lost a great talent when Wally Page died in January 2023. He left a wonderful archive of songs and Allan Perks is doing full justice to ‘The Disappeared’

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Mamma’s still waiting for someone to say
Sara Christina was found yesterday
And the ghost of not knowing still eats her away
Sara Christina’s is missing
In El Salvador that’s the way that it is
You ssy what you think and you run the risk
Of ending up on the casualty list
Lost but never forgotten

Los Desaparacidos
Los Desaparacidos
Los Desaparacidos
Los Desaparacidos

Los Paradiso is covered in mist
Friends are acting like strangers
Beware of the dangerous Judas kiss
That’ll carry you away
If you stand with Romero you’re taken up wrong
If you stand with the union, they’ll block out the sun
As the Air Force lands in your face with a gun
And carries you away

Los Desaparacidos
Los Desaparacidos
Los Desaparacidos
Los Desaparacidos

It’s a dirty face of a dirty war
On the streets of San Salvador
There’ll be no fandango in here anymore
They’ve taken it all away
This could be paradise free from the spell
Of the Yankee dollar bills from hell
That keeps all the jailers and generals well
While the innocent ones go missing

Los Desaparacidos
Los Desaparacidos
Los Desaparacidos
Los Desaparacidos

Mamma’s still waiting for someone to say
Sara Christina was found yesterday
And the ghost of not knowing still eats her away
Sara Christina’s still missing