Oh, give us a beach
Where oil spills can’t reach,
And there’s no sticky goo on the sand,
Where children can play,
And the birds and fish stay
Free from harm… that’s our simple demand.

CHORUS:         
         Save our seas and our sand!
         We’re here and we’re taking a stand.
         We say NO to those rigs
         And those comp’nies so big!
         Mother Earth still comes first in our land.

We Grannies are blue.
Our predictions came true,
And their oil leaked onto our shore.
It’s gooey and black
And we can’t put it back.
So we don’t want them drillin’ no more!
CHORUS

“Drill, baby, drill”
Was a license to kill
For Halliburton, TransOcean, BP.
So boycott BP
And then maybe they’ll see
What we think of their crude oil spill.
CHORUS

Oh, we like our veggies without pesticides,
And our food without those hormones placed inside.
We like fish without PCBs,
And forests that still have trees, Oh,
We’re radical environmentalists!

Oh, we don’t like energy from fossil fuels,
‘Cause we know that they’ll run out, we ain’t no fools!
And we’d rather see those windmill blades
Than nuclear plants in the Everglades.
We’re radical environmentalists!

Yes, we’re radical environmentalists.
When people mess with Mother Earth it makes us pissed!
So get out and tell the others
That the Earth is still our mother….
Then you’ll be a true environmentalist.

Listen to the people
Listen to the people
What do they say?
What do they say?
EPA* has rent control
EPA has rent control
Come what may, come what may

Listen to the tenants
Listen to the tenants
What do they say?
What do they say?
Struggle-ing to get by
Hear the tenants as they cry,
“We’re still here, we’re still here”

*East Palo Alto
See PHOTO JOURNAL featuring tenants and Grannies marching together to protect tenants from East Palo Alto’s biggest and most greedy landlord…who refused to honor the city’s rent stabilization ordinance!

Now they’re selling these cars on El Camino
Fancy autos for the stars, El Camino

Can’t believe they’d build green cars, down in Downey
Where the toxic wastes were found, down in Downey

Why not build the cars nearby, right in Fremont
There’s a lovely site nearby, right in Fremont

Electric cars will pave the way
People Rise UP!
Built in safe enviroments
Tesla Wi-ise UP!

January, 2010

CAMPBELL’S CONDO WOULD DO FOR ME.
WARM AND COZY AND NOT ONE FLEA.
HE’D TAKE GOOD CARE OF ME, O WOULDN’T IT BE LOVERLY.

NO COPS ROUTING ME OUT FROM DOORWAYS
‘CAUSE IT’S SEVEN O FIVE.
I COULD LIVE AGAIN, NOT JUST SURVIVE.

IT’S GETTING COLD AND MY BLANKET’S THIN.
BUILDINGS STAND EMPTY BUT YOU CAN’T GET IN.
TRY PARKS, THEY’LL RUN YOU IN, AND NO ONE HAS AN ANSWER.

CONDO’S SELL FOR A MILLION BUCKS,
RENTS ARE HIGH AND WELFARE MONEY SUCKS
THE POOR ARE OUT OF LUCK, AND NO ONE HAS AN ANSWER.

HE WAS TALLER THAN A MAN AND HE HAD BIG PAWS,
LOTS OF TEETH TO BITE YOU WITH AND GREAT BIG CLAWS.
BUT IF YOU DIDN’T BOTHER HIM, HE’D PLAY FAIR
COS’ HE REALLY WAS A PEACEFUL GRIZZLY BEAR.

THEN ALONG THE CAME THE HUNTER WITH HIS GREAT BIG GUN
KILLING OFF THE GRIZZLIES ONE BY ONE.
THEN THE LOGGERS MOVED IN AND THE ROADS CAME TOO.
AND THEY SOLD THE LAST GRIZZLY TO A FOREIGN ZOO.

A LONG TIME AGO WE USED TO HAVE TREES,
WE USED TO HAVE FISH, NOW THERE’S EMPTY SEAS.
WE USED TO HAVE SO MANY THINGS THAT NOW ARE RARE
AND THE MIGHTIEST OF ALL WAS THE GRIZZLY BEAR.

Picking on the poor, picking on the poor
If they cannot pay their rent, kick ‘em out the door!
Let them feel the crunch, let them feel the crunch
Cut down welfare payments, they don’t need the lunch
2) Shut down shelters too, shut down shelters too
Why do they need counseling? Who cares what they do?
Let them feel the pinch. Let them feel the pinch. (These 2 lines could contain your local gripe & names)
[Harris] won’t hear protests. He won’t give an inch.
3) Picking on the poor. Picking on the poor
Got to cut the deficit by picking on the poor
Now they’ve done their stint. Now they’ve done their tour
They will be REMEMBERED for Picking On The Poor!

Put the foodbank out of business
Raise the welfare rates
Stop the cuts to the disabled
We don’t appreciate
Seeing childen going hungry
Parent’s struggling
Family homes with empty cupboards
Poor, (but still working).
In the meantime won’t you give?
Food to feed our own?
Peanut butter, jam, spam
Any food that’s known
Juice,cheese, beans and tuna
Any food that’s gonne
Feed the folks to need to eat right now!
Someone’s in the kitchen with [Harris] (Insert governmental person’s name here)
Someone must be in there, I know, I know,
Something must be keeping [him] from seeing
Welfare rates are just too low
[He's] saying – “Foodbanks-we’ll just let them grow.
Homeless-we’ll ignore them, oh, ho,
Forget – people on the dole
Knocking on the foodbank door.”