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Down In The Valleys – Antiwar Song

Rose — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:32:35 +0000

Down in the valleys, the valleys so low,
Hang your heads sadly to know our drones go
Bomb-dropping drones go, dears,
Bomb-dropping drones go.
Hang your heads sadly knowing that our drones go.

Pakistanis love family, Afghanis do too
Angels in heaven know why we’re blue.
Know why we’re blue, dears,
Know why we grannies are blue.
Angels in heaven know we’re wretched and blue.

Mark us a circling space, forty feet wide
So we grannies can lament as war-time goes by.
As war-time goes by, dears,
As war-time goes by
So we grannies can lament as war-time goes by.

Write to our Congress, President too, lines
Telling them, darlings, that you’re not fine
That you’re not fine, dears,
That you’re not fine
With drone attacks killing you are not fine.

The “Beast of Kandahar” truly’s well named.
Desk-guys in Virginia do launch them and aim.
Do launch them and aim, dears,
Do launch them and aim.
Sad for all families – our remote launch and aim.

Sec. of War Gates wants drones to expand
Hang our heads lower for more bombers unmanned.
Hang our granny heads lower, dears,
For more bombers unmanned as

America evilly pursues new unmanned bombers, blam, blam,

and blam.

We Weep for Gaza

Vicki — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:23:03 +0000

Gaza, Gaza, Gaza, Gaza,

We weep for the children and the harm

That we have done.

Gaza, Gaza, Gaza, Gaza,

U.S. makes the bombs that kill

Your daughters and your sons.

Gaza, Gaza, why are you complaining?

Don’t we all like to hear those bombs raining?

You have known the strife and grief of war,

But we don’t care ‘cause you are poor!

Gaza, Gaza [clap] we will wipe you off the earth

‘Cause you are people of a different faith,

And Gaza, Gaza, [clap] we’ll blockade and bomb

Until the world shouts out “Bring peace to Gaza!”

HAVA NAGILA/Gaza Song

Rose — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:10:14 +0000

Gaza is full of children
Gaza has mostly children
War can’t be made on children
For this, we’re glad
(repeat)
Let us see clearly
Awaken, cast off war
With a cheerful heart

HaTikvah/Gaza Song

Rose — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:34:57 +0000

Weary is the spirit of us all
Weary of this war
With eyes turned down
Searching for peace

But the hope – the new hope
Must see clearly – or we are lost
Peace for all in their lands
No more war for us in our land

Gaza Tzena Song

Rose — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:11:24 +0000

Gaza, Gaza, Gaza, Gaza
O your troubles are
Too big for me
Gaza, Gaza, Gaza, Gaza
So I’ll close my ears
And shut my eyes
Gaza, Gaza, dance instead
No bombs are falling
La, La, La I cannot hear
my fingers in my ear!

Gaza, Gaza, with my eyes shut
One, two, three, four,
No one dying anymore
Gaza, Gaza, won’t it mend
If I pretend?
Gaza, Gaza, Gaza!

Gaza, Gaza, Gaza, Gaza
Take away this blindness
From my eyes
Gaza, Gaza, Gaza, Gaza,
Help me clearly see
What is disguised

Gaza, Gaza, join with every nation
Let us sit with contemplation
Till at last no bombs are falling
Nothing more to fear

Gaza, Gaza, we are trying
One, two, three, four
Keep the children here from dying
Gaza, Gaza,
Our heart’s crying
Gaza, Gaza, Gaza!
(repeat verses)

Oh, George Dubya!

Vicki — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:54:39 +0000

Give George Bush a subpoena….
War criminal…..yes siree….
If our grandsons behaved like him
We’d put them over our knee.
OH, we’d give George a spanking….
(That was OK in our day)
‘Cause his war crimes far exceed
A slap on the butt today.

Oh-George Dubbya….
War time buccaneer…
We’ve seen your WANTED poster up,
But you’re not wanted here!

Oh George’s lies took him to war
Perhaps a million civilians died
We don’t know the number
‘Cause every time he spoke he lied.

Oh- George Dubbya….
War time buccaneer…
We’ve seen your WANTED poster up,
But you’re not wanted here!

There is a law on Canada’s books
The Immigration….Protection Act…..*
Deems foreign nationals inadmissible
If they’ve committed war crime acts.
Like the bombing of civilians
In those days of Shock and Awe….
And crimes against humanity
That break International Law.
Violating International Law
Is a clear war crime…..
And torture and rendition
Are steps way over the line.

Oh-George Dubbya….
War time buccaneer…
We’ve seen your WANTED poster up,
But you’re not wanted here!

As for his so-called statesmanship
It’s oh so insincere….
You can’t cover up those war crimes
With such a thin veneer.
He should be hauled to th’ World Court….
And sentenced to hard time….
For the young folk that he sent to death
And all of his war crimes.

Oh-George Dubbya…..
War time buccaneer…
We’ve seen your WANTED poster up,
But you’re not wanted here!

It’s a call for citizen’s arrest
If our Government is afraid….
Betrayal of International Law
Is a debt that must be paid.

Oh-George Dubbya….
War time buccaneer…
We’ve seen your WANTED poster up
But you’re not wanted here!

* Immigration and Refugee Protection Act: Section 35(1) (a)

Shoes, Shoes, Glorious Shoes

Vicki — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:42:26 +0000

Shoes, shoes, glorious shoes,
Take one and throw it at Bush if you choose.
Don’t want him in our town.
We all give him thumbs down!
He’s for torture and war which were never approved.
(OR He started two wars which were never approved.)

Why try to defend your eight years
Which caused loss of life, filled the world full of tears?
Go back to your ranch
You haven’t a chance
Of a warm welcome here. We say BOO! Shame on you!

George Dubya, you haven’t a clue
Why people might clout you with an old shoe.
Go back to your ranch
You haven’t a chance
Of a warm welcome here. We say BOO! Shame on you!

Jail Those Generals

Rose — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:04:02 +0000

O those Burmese generals
Who have jailed away
Aung San Sou Kyi
Till some future day
And recruited children
to the soldiers way
I wanna see the UN
Do the right thing
CHORUS
O the label, ‘tyrants,’
Fits these Burmese generals
Rape and killing, torture too
We’ve got to stop it, me and you
O the million homeless
Refugees from villages
Forty years is way too long
For this to be going on!
2) O these Burmese generals
are just plain crooks
Don’t seem to care
About how things look
Never fit to lead
Anyone at all
Gotta take away the country
From these bad guys
CHORUS
3)Even one child soldier
Is too many, dear
But we’re talking thousands
And it’s still not clear
Why the UN’’s failing
To stop the rise
of these sad child armies
There in Burma!
CHORUS

Don’t Forget Hiroshima

Rose — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:18:22 +0000

1) ‘Twas long ago
And far away cross the sea
so many died in an instant
Hiroshima!
Light your lights
Don’t forget
That day, bombs
Fell from the blue sky,
Hiroshima!
2) And you and I
Safe and happy at home
Still carry the memory of that day
Hiroshima!
Candles burn
Lanterns float
I will remember forever
Hiroshima!

Not Another Hiroshima

c0nNy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:01:41 +0000

Not another Hiroshima,
too many already died.
Nuclear war is too extreme a way,
it causes genocide!
Don’t you see it’s a disaster
using bombs just ‘cause we can?
Won’t the end come so much faster?
Stop the nuclear plan!

Brothers, don’t you know,
Sisters, don’t you know?
We have to stop the nuclear pla-a-an!
Brothers, don’t you know,
Sisters, don’t you know?
We need a new test ban!

They’re in cahoots ‘bout nuclear weapons,
Someone’s pushing nukes, I know-o-o-o,
They’re in cahoots ‘bout nuclear weapons,
They want to lay our “enemies” low!.

We’ll all die, fiddling around
with atom bombs, you good old bo-oys,
We’ll all die, the world around,
You and your damned war toys!
You and your damned war toys! (Slow- ½ time)