Nuclear waste, you’re deep in the hearts of us

So deep in our hearts, you’re really a part of us

We’ve got you, under our skin

Pesticides, you’re in there too,

Genetically engineered food, what do we do with you?

Smog, dioxin, and diesel emissions too

We’ve got you, inside our lungs [cough]

(BREAK — uses the other melody)

Don’t you know, my friends, we must stop this trend;

Our world is polluted, It can’t be disputed;

And we must spread the word, and we can’t be deterred by polluters,

Who must be defeated; And we’ll get them out of our skin

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 

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/)

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

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

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
(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!

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 have all the oceans gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the oceans gone?
Long time ago?
Where have all the oceans gone?
Turned to toxic crude oil dumps
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

Where are all the living things?
Long time passing
Where are all the living things?
Long time ago?
Where are all the living things?
Cooked by global warming
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

How will planet earth survive
This destruction?
How will planet earth survive
Such callous greed?
How will planet earth survive?
Profits matter more than lives
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?