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Why Such a Big Bill?

Topics: Government and Politics, Human and Civil Rights    
  • Author: Rose DeShaw, Kingston, Ontari
  • Tune: Mocking Bird Hill

When a bill is one hundred pages or more
You have a funny feeling that what it is for
Is to keep you from reading the contents of it
Because if you knew them, you might throw a fit
Tra la la , tweedle dee dee
It gives us a chill
When a bill is so packed full it threatens to spill
Its contents all over those least fit to cope
And she who protests it is labeled a dope

2) When Canada’s crime stats are growing quite low
And a bill comes along that says this isn’t so
Then we’re full of suspicion, it’s throwing us back
To where the U.S. has abandoned that track
Tra la la, tweedle dee dee
We know more about crime
Than we did in the days of our grandparent’s time
We can help some and keep some
from offending again
Not just dump them all into one big prison den

3) So let’s take some out and study this thing
Which is why we’ve come out here to talk and to sing
We’re wary of bills that are switfly passed through
Without contributiions from me and from you
Tra la la, tweedle dee dee
Let’s look at expense
This will cost our province
It doesn’t make sense
Let’s tell Stephen Harper
C-10 is a NO!
And have an election where Tories will Go!
Rose DeShaw

Bill C-10 is Unconstitutional!

Topics: Government and Politics, Human and Civil Rights    
  • Author: Rose DeShaw, Kingston, Ontari
  • Tune: Istanbul Not Constantinople

Just the chorus (an EASY & funny tune on youtube)

Bill C-10 is UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Unwise, unjust and unconstitutional
Why will our PM push it through?
Because HE’S not heard complaint from me and you!
2) Bill C-10 is just like an omnibus
Whole bunch of other bills sneaking quickly past us
All the way from immigrants to petty crime
Our PM plans to sneak it past this time!
3) Write your MP – tell him what you think of this
Stop Bill C-10 till it’s fully been explained to us
We know how to really make a ghastly fuss
Let’s show him that he can’t do this to US!
Rose DeShaw, Canada

How to Stop a Bill (and Bring it Down)

Topics: Government and Politics, Human and Civil Rights    
  • Author: Rose DeShaw, Kingston, Ontario
  • Tune: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria, From the Sound of Music

How do we get a public groundswell going?
How do we stop a bill and bring it down?
How do we show its many faults to others?
We talk it up clear
We tell what we fear
We frown!
Many a thing we have to say about it
Many a thing you need to understand
So Google C-10 today
And tell your MP NO WAY!
So many will be ruined by this plan
How do we solve a problem like this crime bill?
If we fight, we’ll defeat it, yes, you and I sure can!

What Shall We Do With Corp’rat Fat Cats?

Topics: Occupy Wall Street    

What Shall We Do With Corp’rat Fat Cats?

Tune of What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor? (A minor; start on E)

What shall we do with corp’rat fat cats? (× 3)
Rise up and declaw them!

Way-hay, rise up neighbors! (× 3)
Rise up, seize the morning!

Make them pay their share of taxes! (× 3)
Make haste to expose them!

What shall we do with robber banksters? (× 3)
Rise up and depose them!

Way-hay, rise up neighbors! (× 3)
Rise up, seize the morning!

Strip them of their year-end bonus! (× 3)
Pay those who are working!

What shall we do with Wall Street gamblers? (× 3)
Say: “Your gig is up now!”

Way-hay, rise up neighbors! (× 3)
Riseup, seize the morning!

Toss’m in a cell in fed’ral prison (× 3)
Early in the morning!

Way-hay, rise up neighbors! (× 3)
Rise up, seize the morning!

Granny Paige and the Raging Grannies of Greater Westerly, Rhode Island

Occupy Wall Street

Topics: Occupy Wall Street    

Occupy Wall Street

Our budget’s in the ditch,
Our budget’s in the ditch,
Hi-ho, we’re broke, you know,
‘Cuz we don’t tax the rich.

Survival hit a hitch,
Survival hit a hitch,
Boo hoo, what shall we do?
We need to tax the rich!

We’ve occupied their lair,
We’ve occupied their lair,
Hi ho, we wel’l never go,
Until they’ve paid their share!

Mighty Omnibus Song (Canadian)

Topics: Government and Politics, Human and Civil Rights    
  • Author: Sandra Vida, Calgary Grans
  • Tune: THE LITTLE LIST SONG: THE MIKADO by Gilbert & Sullivan

(First two verses sung by some of the Grannies with false moustaches or whatever, to look like conservative bad guys! – with others chiming in on chorus, zombie-like)

There are juicy legal issues where the media makes a fuss
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,

And so it came to us – Let’s create an OMNIBUS!
I’ve got a little list–I’ve got a little list

So we dredged up all the quibbles that the public had with us
Of society offenders who might well be underground,

That make some people cuss – and we made an OMNIBUS!
And who never would be missed–who never would be missed!

First there’s leniency with youth who may commit a petty crime
There’s the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs—

And there’s homeless people begging proper citizens for a dime
All people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs—

There’s criminals who break parole – I’m sure there’s one or two
All children who are up in dates, and floor you with ‘em flat—

And there’s predators who kill again – at least we know a few
All persons who in shaking hands, shake hands with you like _that_–

It really doesn’t matter if it’s logical or just
And all third persons who on spoiling tete-a-tetes insist—

We’ll put it on the bus, the Mighty OMNIBUS!
They’d none of ‘em be missed–they’d none of ‘em be missed!

When Will Occupy Go Home?

Topics: Business and Economy, Government and Politics, Occupy Wall Street    
  • Author: Rose DeShaw
  • Tune: Walk Up the Avenue (from Easter Parade)

Wall street bankers are they
With all of the clout and say
They tell us what to do and everything simply goes their way
They’re Congress’s favorite lads
That connection is ironclad
Their governmental grafting is absurd and it makes us mad.
The Vanderbilt’s don’t ask US up for tea
Why they’re ignoring us we just can’t see – no siree

We would drive up and ask them but we haven’t got the gas
We would sail but we’re boatless so we guess we’ll have to pass
We would ride on a bicycle but we haven’t got a bike
So we’ll keep occupying
O we’ll keep occupying
Till the whole one percent knows what we like!

Refrain:
We don’t think occupying is so swell
But these old financial handshakes really smell – what a SMELL!
We’ll go home when we see the bankers spread around their dough
We’ll go home when the taxman calls them up to say, ‘hello.’
We’ll go home when we’ve made things clear, the people finally know
Till then, keep occupying
O we’ll keep occupying
Yes, we’ll keep occupying till they know!

No Rate Hike! No Way!

Topics: Business and Economy, Environment and Energy, Government and Politics, Local Issues    
  • Author: Vicki Ryder (Triangle, NC)
  • Tune: "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

[I wrote this song for the Triangle Grannies to sing at a public hearing on a proposed rate hike of 18.6% by Duke Energy, our local power company (monopoly). Despite record-breaking CEO salaries and bonuses in the multi-millions, they are crying poor. While this is a local struggle, I think the song has potential for being adapted for other struggles, as well.]

We’re the Raging Grannies and we’ve come to have our say,
To speak out for the people and to tell you there’s no way
To justify a rate hike for Duke Energy today…
“No rate hike! No way!”

CHORUS:
         So listen to the people and just turn the rate hike down.
         We don’t want their toxic power plants polluting all our towns.
         We demand that you all listen to the citizens today:
         “No rate hike! No way!”

The bosses at Duke Energy grow richer every day;
They’re rakin’ in the millions and they now want us to pay.
They got a rate hike last year and they’ll get one next year, too.
That’s a thirty percent increase that they want from me and you!
REPEAT CHORUS

They’re burning coal and natural gas and it’s so plain to see
That they’re wrecking our environment and our economy.
They shouldn’t be rewarded for their wasteful business plans;
They’ll build toxic plants that should be banned.
REPEAT CHORUS

 If you cave in now to their demands there’ll be no end in sight
To the rate hikes that they’ll take from us; that gives us quite a fright!
They’ll be building nuclear power plants with ou-ur hard-earned dough,
Fukashima should have taught us that’s a crazy way to go.
REPEAT CHORUS 

I Want to Be a Corporation

Topics: Business and Economy, Government and Politics, Occupy Wall Street    
  • Author: Vicki Ryder (Triangle, NC)
  • Tune: "Get Me to the Church On Time"

I want to be a corporation,
Then how those profit bells will chime!
I’ll be a person
Who makes our country worsen,
And for taxes I won’t pay a single dime.

When I’m a full-fledged corporation,
I’ll break the law and not get fined.
I’ll buy the Supreme Court,
They’re my best cohorts,
My pals and my partners in crime.

 If I really were a corporation
I’d buy all the candidates, you bet,
I’d fix all the voting
Oh, how I’d be gloating
While pulling strings on my elected marionettes.

 If I were a giant corporation,
I’d send all our jobs right overseas.
I’d lead the cheering
For war profiteering,
And sell bombs to any country that I please.

 Hey, out there, people are you listenin’?
They say that business is too big to fail.
But we’re the 99%
We’ll get together and dissent,
And put those greedy bastards all in jail.

Move Your Money

Topics: Business and Economy, Government and Politics, Occupy Wall Street    
  • Author: Vicki Ryder (Triangle, NC)
  • Tune: "Roll Out the Barrel"

Move all your money
Out of the big banks today!
Vote with your money
’Cause that’s the American way.
We’ll show the bankers
That we don’t need them anymore.
We’re goin’ to our local credit union
Where our money will earn more!

Bank
of America,
Chase Bank and CitiGroup, too,
Take millions in profits
And don’t give a fig about you.
They don’t pay taxes,
Not even one single red cent,
But they have no problem takin’ bailouts
From the ninety-nine percent!

 Say “no” to the bankers
Who suffer from terminal greed.
Move all your money
And let’s help the poor folks in need.
The big banks have failed us
Though they say they’re too big to fail.
It’s time now to move all our money
And put the bankers all in jail.

The Times They Do Need a Changin’

Topics: Environment and Energy    
  • Author: Audrey Roberts of the Raging Grannies ... and Their Friends of Westchester County NY
  • Tune: The Times They Are a Changin'

So Westchester people we want you to hear,
How Entergy’s hiding the facts from all near.
We know this old plant has now had it’s day.
Continuing leaks there will make us all pay.
So why are we waiting? [PAUSE]
Let’s close the plant down!
For the times they do need a changin’!

The fish they are dying, the fault line is near.
Spent fuel pools are full, and are open and bare.
We can’t get away if a problem appears.
There’s too many people, and few roads to share.
The time is a wasting! [PAUSE]
Let’s find a new way!
For the times they do need a changin’!

Now NRC members we want you to hear,
Indian Point has been failing for many a year.
Fukushima’s a signal of what might be in sight.
Please listen, take note, and do what is right! [PAUSE]
The people around here
Are depending on you!
For the times they do need a changin’!

[ONE VOICE] PLEASE DO NOT RELICENSE INDIAN POINT!

Sung at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) meeting to relicense the Indian Point nuclear facility, one of the oldest nuclear facilities in the United States.
(Nuclear Information and Resource Service: http://www.nirs.org/)

No Safe Lower Limit

Topics: Environment and Energy    
  • Author: Raging Grannies ... and Their Friends of Westchester County NY
  • Tune: Santa Clause Is Coming to Town

(Hand motions are in square brackets.)

You better watch out! [ONE FINGER]
Raise up a cry! [FIST ]
Nukes aren’t safe. [SHAKE FINGER] I’m telling you why.
There is no safe [SHAKE HEAD] lower limit … at all! [OPEN ARMS, PALMS UP]

New facts are now in. Folks just didn’t know. [SHAKE HEAD]
The death rate spikes, [RAISE HAND] when the radiation’s low.
There is no safe [SHAKE HEAD] lower limit … at all! [OPEN ARMS, PALMS UP]

(CHORUS)
Does the NRC protect me? [HAND ON CHEST]
Or protect the industry? [GESTURE TO LEFT]
The collective dose and deaths,
Should be counted by the NRC!

Plutonium dust from weaponry … [GESTURE TO LEFT]
Releases from nukes run properly … [GESTURE TO RIGHT]
There is no safe [SHAKE HEAD] lower limit … at all! [OPEN ARMS, PALMS UP]

(CHORUS)
No choice or compensation; [SHAKE HEAD]
All our lives at stake. [OPEN HAND, PALM UP]
That’s morally, ethically wrong! [ONE FINGER]
Shut down nukes [FIST] for goodness sake!

[ONE VOICE] Switzerland is! [ONE VOICE] Germany is!

You better watch out! [ONE FINGER]
Raise up a cry! [FIST]
Nukes aren’t safe. [SHAKE FINGER] I’m telling you why.
[SLOWLY] THERE IS NO SAFE [SHAKE HEAD] LOWER LIMIT

… AT ALL! [OPEN ARMS, PALMS UP]

The Raging Grannies … and Their Friends in Westchester County NY have one of the oldest nuclear facilities in the US right in their neighborhood. It is up for relicensing. This song was sung at the local Nuclear Regulatory Commission(NRC) meeting held shortly after the Fukushima disaster.

Reference: 2010 Recommendations of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, “The Health Effects of Exposure to Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation”;

http://www.euradcom.org/2011/ecrr2010.pdf

Move to Amend

Topics: Business and Economy, Government and Politics, Human and Civil Rights, Occupy Wall Street    
  • Author: Vicki Ryder (Triangle, NC)
  • Tune: "Johnny's So Long at the Fair"

CHORUS
Oh dear, what can the matter be?
Big money is killing democracy;
We’re fed up with the Fat Cat’s hypocrisy…
We need to Move to Amend.

The Supreme Court’s decided that big corporations
Can donate to candidates all through our nation.
Elections now are an abomination!
So we need to Move to Amend.

CHORUS

The candidates have to take money that’s dirty,
Or they can’t buy ads on the news at six-thirty,
And folks don’t have access to news that is worthy.
So we need to Move to Amend.

CHORUS

Corporations back candidates who help the wealthy,
While poor people cannot afford to stay healthy!
Our tax money’s wasted on bombs that are stealthy.
So we need to Move to Amend.

CHORUS

They can beat us black and blue,
Throw our books in a dumpster, too.
They can jail the people but not the truth!
Today we say no more!

CHORUS

Song for the Occupations (“No More!”)

Topics: Business and Economy, Government and Politics, Human and Civil Rights, Occupy Wall Street    
  • Author: Vicki Ryder (Triangle, NC)
  • Tune: "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep", or "We Shall Not Be Moved"

This is the day we say “no more,”
No more bailouts and no more war,
No more killin’ on foreign shores,
Today we say no more!

We’ve been workin’ for the day
When workin’ folk rise up and say:
Tax the rich and make them pay!
Today we say no more!

You bankers and you CEOs,
You used us all to make your dough.
Your time is up, you’ve got to go!
Today we say no more!

With our sweat and with our toil,
You’ve raped the earth, the sea and soil,
So you could sell your bloody spoils.
Today we say no more!

Today we pledge to occupy
This land you think that you can buy.
You’ve robbed us blind, you’ve bled us dry.
Today we say no more!

This is the day we all decide
Who is on the people’s side.
Today’s the day we turn the tide.
Today we say no more!

We’ve been cheated, we’ve been booed,
By the cops we’ve been abused.
Now we’re tired of bein’ screwed!
Today we say no more!

This is the day we take a stand,
In Washington and all the land,
And stand together hand in hand,
Today we say no more!

Hydrofracturing Sucks!

Topics: Environment and Energy, Government and Politics, Local Issues    
  • Author: Vicki Ryder (Triangle, NC)
  • Tune: "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

The USA’s addicted now to fossil fuel and oil,
And hydrofracking’s on the rise; that makes our blood just boil.
We know that fracking will destroy our water and our soil….
Hydrofracturing just sucks!

CHORUS:

        (So) Take your freakin’ frackin’ drills and keep ‘em from our town,
        We don’t want your fracking turning all our water brown,
        Take your freakin’ frackin’ drills or we will shut you down!
        Hydrofracturing just sucks.

 It blows in nasty chemicals and poisons all the water;
And causes quakes beneath the earth – a thing it shouldn’t oughta;
We want safe drinking water for our sons and for our daughters,
But hydrofracturing just sucks!

        CHORUS

 

We Know You, VERIZON!

Topics: Business and Economy, Human and Civil Rights    
  • Author: Rose DeShaw, Kingston, Ontario
  • Tune: Have I Told You Lately That I Loved You?

Have we told you lately that we know you?
Can we show you all the things we know?
O Verizon even with your 19 billion profits
You’re outsourcing a darn good workforce now

The world you live in isn’t like where we live
Your execs with two hundred million pay
While you cut worker benefits and sick days
Verizon, we can’t take this today

Have we told you lately, on retirement
That health insurance must go on?
O Verizon, people aren’t disposable
Commodities.
Verizon, we’re telling you now

Outlandish pay makes you look very greedy
Especially in these economic times
All the country’s looking at Verizon
And their workers in the unemployment lines

Can You Hear Me Now, Verizon?

Topics: Business and Economy, Government and Politics, Local Issues    
  • Author: Vicki Ryder (Triangle, NC)
  • Tune: Yellow Rose of Texas

CHORUS:
                Can you hear me now, Verizon?
                This wake-up call’s for you.
                You’re raking in the billions
                And pay no taxes, too.
                And now you want your workers
                To roll over and play dead,
                But we’re not gonna take it
                And we’re risin’ up instead!

 You’d outsource all your workers
And slash their benefits,
Cut retirees off from health care –
That really gives us fits!
We’re sick of your tax dodging,
It’s a shameful greedy crime,
So we’ll stand with the workers
On Verizon’s picket line.

 CHORUS

 We’re done with being quiet
While the rich live off the poor.
We’re tired of your greed
And we won’t take it anymore.
We’ll strike against Verizon
‘Til the corporations learn
That the people now are risin’
To take back what we have earned.

CHORUS

Hey, Dudes

Topics: Environment and Energy, Government and Politics    
  • Author: Connie Graves, Tucson Raging Grannies
  • Tune: Hey Jude

HEY Dudes, please NO more nukes….
That’s the WORST idea yet, SIR-i-irs
We’ve alREAdy got THOUsands of them stored …
Why do you THINK that…we need MORE, Sirs?

HEY Dudes, we KNOW the hype….
they’re just there SO we can deTER-er-er
other COUNtries who JUST might want to strike,
but your REA-easons….just DON’t make sense, Sirs!

INto aNOTHer lion’s DEN, HEY Dudes, again?
They won’t disARM unless WE… do FIR-ir-irst…
WHY’s it not CLEAR… to such SELF-proclaimed WISE men,
non-prolifeRAtion’s been a total FAI-ailure?
La-la-la-la, la-la, la-la

HEY Dudes, it’s JUST not right…
There’s no ETHics in NUclear WARfare-are-are….
TEACHing your PIlots…words of JEsus and Von BRAUN
keeps the real ISsues…out of SIGHT, Sirs!

HEY Dudes, even REAgan said
a NUclear war JUST can’t be won, SIR-i-irs!
We can inCINerate..ENemies FIFty times over,
but it won’t SAVE us…in the END, Sirs!

So before you ASK for funds aGAIN, HEY Dudes, BEgin
to RE-a-lize… that NUKES aren’t KO-osher,
and reMEMber all the VICtims in JaPAN
killed by your deCIsions…made COLD and SO-ober.
La-la-la-la, la-la, la-la

HEY Dudes, you’ve DONE us wrong!
We’re all past FED up, you can BET, SIR-i-irs!
We don’t WANT to hear…ANy more of your lies
or ration’LIzations…to make US feel better!

Better, better, better, better, better, better….WHOA!

No, No, No-no-no-no-no, no-no-no-no-no, Hey Dudes!
No, No, No-no-no-no-no, no-no-no-no-no, Hey Dudes!
No, No, No-no-no-no-no, no-no-no-no-no, Hey Dudes!
No, No, No-no-no-no-no, no-no-no-no-no, Hey Dudes……

Another Fukushima

Topics: Environment and Energy    
  • Author: Connie Graves, Tucson Raging Grannies
  • Tune: Yellow Rose of Texas

The words of this song fit only if the emphasis (as noted by capital letters) and hesitations (indicated by …) are followed….

ANOTHER FUKUSHIMA
(tune: Yellow Rose of Texas)

There’s SO much talk aBOUT the need for MORE cheap enerGY,
they SAY the ANswer’s NUclear power…we HAVE to disagree,
you can TALK about the PROS and cons of NUclear enerGY
but aNOTHer FUkushIma could play HELL with YOU and me!

PENNsylvania’s THREE Mile Island, they SAY was a NEAR miss,
auTHORities pooh-POOHED it…with a BANdaid and a kiss,
denIED the RAdiation that SWEPT across the state,
causing CANcer and disEAses leaving FOLKS to FACE dire fates!

Los ALamos was THREAtened by the HOT Las CONchas fires,
STARted, so they TELL us, by FALLen POWer wires…
If the BLAZE had moved much CLOser could have BEEN a REAL bad day
as the WHITE sands of New MExico were ALL blown FAR away!

The FLOOding in NeBRAska…showed US all ONCE again
how EAsily the NUKE plants there could SEND folks to their ends,
wiping OUT the MissOURi River not to MENtion OmaHA….
they SHOULD have seen it COMing…it’s BAsic MURphy’s Law!

Now LOOking at ALL the DANgers…in the USE of NUclear power,
our THOUGHTS of a NUclear MELTtdown are eNOUGH to make us COWer…
a new CherNObyl here is A real POSS-i-bil-iTY -
or aNOTHer FUkushIma could play HELL (slow) in…OUR…country!

Dont be a Private School Dunce!

Topics: Education    
  • Author: Rose DeShaw
  • Tune: GEORGY GIRL- Lively like the tune!

Hey, there, worried Mom
Want the very best for all your kids?
Look, your local public school can give you all of that – Not private!
Hey there, with your kids
High-fees no criteria of excellence
Private school doesn’t have the whole shebang! – not even the clothes they wear!
Okay, you’re school shopping but let’s get real for once
Don’t be a private school dunce!
Hey there, get involved
Help our public schools from deep inside
Life is a reality, you can’t always run away
Don’t be so scared of changing what you see wrong
It’s time for getting in there yourself – you’re needed
USE KAZOO’S HERE FOR THE SHORT INSTRUMENTAL BREAK
Hey there, parent’s all
Education’s tough but so are you
Bring out all the smarts you’ve got and oh, what a change could be
The world would see – some new public schools
(Hey there, taxpayer)
Wake up with our schools
(Help out with our schools)
Come on, save our schools
Fade
Hey there public schools
Let’s help public schools

Granny Peace Makers

Topics: Government and Politics, War and Peace    
  • Author: Rosalia Haduch
  • Tune: This Land Is My Land

Granny Peace Makerrs
Lyrics by Rosalia Haduch
Tune: This Land is My Land

How long will humans
continue fighting
killing each other
for ages long
wearing their armor
like a badge of honor
and never think it
is so wrong?

It’s power grabbing
not dying soldiers
that keep them busy,
They are insane.
Their values flawed,
they are confused,
They must still
have reptilian brains.

It’s up to us now
Granny Peace Makers
to show the world that
peace can be won.
A lot of hard work
will be required
but it’s our job
and must be done.

Buying China Isn’t Cheap

Topics: Business and Economy    
  • Author: Nancy Goedert
  • Tune: Are You Sleeping

Buying China isn’t cheap.
It costs our jobs -
Costs benefits.
Buying China costs too much.
Buying China isn’t cheap.
Buy American.
Buy U.S.A.

Let’s Remember Chernobyl

Topics: Environment and Energy    
  • Tune: Let's Remember Pearl Harbor
  • Author: Nancy Goedert

Let’s Remember Chernobyl
Tune: Let’s Remember Pearl Harbor
Lyrics by Nancy Goedert

Let’s remember Chernobyl,
Fukushima, Three Mile Island.
There are other near misses
In Russia, England and Canada.

They want to build more nuke reactors
Instead of safe green energy
Let’s pretend that we’re sane and
spend those billions to build clean, green.

Where the Smarts Are

Topics: Education    
  • Author: Rose DeShaw
  • Tune: Where The Boys Are Tune

Sing this seductively like Francis, pretend to seduce the audience, smoulder!

Where the smarts are
A school waits for me
A caring place
A teacher’s face
And my education’s FREE!
Where the smarts are
Public school’s for me
The right of every
boy and girl
To learn how
our world should be

BRIDGE
In the crowd of a million people
Public school is for all
And we will climb to the highest
steeple, remind the world it is ours

Till they know this,
we wait patiently
Where the smarts are,
Where the smarts are
Where the smarts are
Public schools for ME!

Free Public Schools – Not Private

Topics: Education, Government and Politics, Human and Civil Rights    
  • Author: Rose DeShaw
  • Tune: There's no business like show business

Everyone should get an education
Money cannot be the measurement
Nowhere can the brain receive a workout
When you are flat broke
Your cash is spent

There’s no virtue in privatizing
Our schools – Let’s make them good
Even tho we still see ignorance around
Our public schools can stand their ground
Education must be free – This is a thing PROFOUND!

Let’s start supporting our schools
For ALL our Free PUBLIC schools!

Plan A Baby With Me! A Planned Parenthood Song

Topics: Human and Civil Rights, Women    
  • Author: Rose DeShaw
  • Tune: Come & Go With Me

Dom, dom, dom de dubie dom
Dom, dom, dom de dubie dom
Dom, dom, dom, de dubie dom
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoaaaaa (repeat)
I need some info
Come & go with me
Planned parenthood
I need to see
Before I’m preggers
Sort it out with me
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoaaaaa!

Get, get, get, get
Get that info clear
Tell me darling
Before a baby’s here
You will support us
Sort it out with me
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoaaaaa!

Yes we need them
Yes, we really need them
Please let them be around
When we’re getting knocked up
Before everything is cocked up
Just give them a chance!

Come, come, come, come
Come into my head
Tell me darling
That you’ve really read
Their ad-vice, darling
Come and go with me
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoaaaaa
[DANCE AROUND, SNAP FINGERS]
Just give them a chance!
[REALLY HAVE FUN - IMITATE SAX SOLOS]
I love life darling
Don’t you see?
Plan for a baby
And we’ll be
Happier always
Come & go with me
[MORE SAX SOLOS - DANCE]
Come see them with me
Dom, dom, dom de dubie dom
Dom, dom, dom de dubie dom
Come see them with me
Dom, dom,dom de dubie dom
Come on, go with me!
(Google youtube, put Come & Go With Me in their search engine and you can hear the original & learn to sing it)

PBS (CBC) In The Morning

Topics: Education, Government and Politics    
  • Author: Linda Slavin, Peterborough Grans
  • Tune: Sugar In The Morning

CBC in the morning, CBC in the evening
CBC at supper-time.
We love the CBC and
We listen all the time…to

Balance in the morning, balance in the evening
Balance at supper-time.
We love our balanced newscasts and
We listen all the time….to

Good music in the morning, music in the evening
Great music at supper-time.
We love our canadian music
On CBC all the time.

Canadian culture in the morning, multi-culture in the evening…
Native culture at supper-time
We love our Canadian culture
On CBC all the time!

(repeat first stanza)

O CBC (PBS)

Topics: Education, Government and Politics    
  • Author:
  • Tune:

Tune: Down By The Bay – Linda Slavin Author, Peterborough Gaggle

O CBC, YOU MAKE US GLOW
ACROSS OUR LAND, UNITE US SO
WITH PRIDE SO STRONG, CAUSE WE BELONG
TO A COUNTRY SO GREAT –
HARPER CAN’T BERATE
OUR CBC….

O CBC, WE WON’T LET YOU GO
AS IT HAPPENS – NOT HAPPEN
WE CAN’T IMAGINE IT SO
AND WITHOUT ‘Q’, WE’D ALL BE LOST
SO GET OUT YOUR PENS
DEAN’S WRONG AGAIN
IT’S A MODEST COST!!!

SO HARPER HEAR THESE GRANNIES CALL
OUR HISTORY’S CLEAR, ON CBC’S ROLE
IN CANADA’S CHANGE FROM A HOME ON THE RANGE
TO A COUNTRY WE KNOW WILL CONTINUE TO GROW
THANKS TO CBC.

We Rage to End All War (Mother’s Day Version)

Topics: Government and Politics, Health Care, Holiday and Celebrations, Soldiers and Veterans, War and Peace, Women    
  • Author: Vicki Ryder (South Florida)
  • Tune: "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

We Rage to End All War [Mother’s Day Version 2011]
(Tune: “Battle Hymn of the Republic”)
New lyrics by Vicki Ryder

We’re the Raging Grannies and we want you all to know
That war is not the way to peace and we must all say NO!
We’ve seen it time and time again – war’s not the way to go!
We rage to end all war!

Chorus:   
         Happy Mother’s Day to all you Grannies,
         Here’s hoping that you’ll get up off your fannies,
         And join us on this day as we proclaim with all our might:
         It’s time to end all war!

We put away our knitting, tuck the grandkids into bed,
Throw on our shawls and aprons, put our hats upon our heads.
Inspired by the suffragists, we do not lightly tread,
We rage to end all war!

Chorus

They took our sons and daughters and they sent them off to die;
Said we had to kill Osama ’though those weapons were a lie.
Now some other mother bids her child a tearful last good-bye.
We rage to end all war!

Chorus

 They want to take our Medicare, our schools and parks and more,
So they’ll have the money that they need to keep on makin’ war.
We’re here to say on Mother’s Day that really makes us sore!
We rage to end all war!

Chorus

Let Me Sell Guns

Topics: Government and Politics, Human and Civil Rights    
  • Author: Sara Williams, Madison Raging Grans
  • Tune: Don’t Fence Me In, Key of C, Start on G

CHORUS:
Let me sell guns, lots of guns, to anyone who’ll buy,
Let me sell guns
Let me sell to the gangs, to the sick and really mad,
Let me sell guns!

Let me sell ’em by myself, without any rules
I don’t want no laws cuz they’re made by fools
They’re money in the bank so I hope you’re cool,
Let me sell guns.

Bridge: Just turn me loose, sellin’ weapons at a gun show
Where the drug cartel will go
Let’s load ’em up, never checking any background
Never asking what I know.

I want to sell till I’m rich as a CEO
Don’t want to know where the guns will go
Don’t listen to the news; I don’t want to know
Let me sell guns!

CHORUS:
Let me sell guns, lots of guns, to anyone who’ll buy…

I wanna sell all my guns before it’s too late
Don’t give a damn who they hate
I’m not responsible for their crime
I’ve got my dime.

Here’s a link to our group singing the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8nqxUrtATM

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