Raging Grannies' Songs

Song of the Billionaires for Fee Hikes

Ruth — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:36:55 +0000

If you can’t pay tuition
We have got a tip for you
Just go and sell a kidney
You need only one not two

We only like the students
Who can pay up front with dough
If you don’t have the money
Sorry kid you’ll have to go

Kidneys are a good re-source
You need just one to live
We won’t have to pay more tax
You will be the one to give…..for

Learning is not important
Poor folks do not count we say
We will import trained workers
Let some other country pay!

See photo journal of the Action League (San Francisco Bay Area) Raging Grannies as Billionaires for Fee Hikes as they appeared on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on March 4, 2010. On this national day of student strikes, tens of thousands were on the streets in the SF Bay Area.

Drilling Off-Shore

peternigh — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:14:10 +0000

This song exists:

here as a PDF text file
here as a MIDI music file

(If you are interested in the Lilypond source, please drop me a note.)

Are You Listening, FPL

Ev1e43 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:21:01 +0000

Are you list’ning,
Are you list’ning,
FPL? FPL?
We don’t want your nukes, no,
We don’t want your nukes, so
Hear us well.
Heed us well.

Are you list’ning,
Are you list’ning,
FPL? FPL?
Warning bells are ringing,
Grannies stand here singing:
Save the ‘Glades;
Treat them well.

Everglades (Are Not What They Used To Be)

Ev1e43 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:17:46 +0000

The Everglades are not what they used to be
That’s thanks to you and me and decades of apathy
The Everglades are not what they used to be
Many long years ago.

The River of Grass is dying and drying up
Panthers and manatees gone in the blow-up
The crocodile’s fate is surely a toss-up
And it’s a crying shame.

CHORUS:
Fish and fowl alike
Are told to take a hike
So developers can spoil and pollute the place
(And make a lot of mo-oney).

Join with us and help save the Everglades
Hurry, before it fades and no longer makes the grade
‘Cause the Everglades just ain’t what they used to be
Many long years ago.

CHORUS:
Fish and fowl alike
Are told to take a hike
So FPL can build another power plant
(And make a lot of mo-oney).

By The Light Of The Nuclear Waste

Ev1e43 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:13:09 +0000

By the light of the nuclear waste
That FPL wants to give us a taste – of – soon
We’ll all see mutant beings galore
Five eyes, four arms, three lips – such charms
Will be ours, post haste
By the light of the waste.

By the light
(Not the dark but the light)
of the nuclear waste
(oh, haste makes waste)
That FPL
(Yes, FPL)
wants to give us a taste – of – soon
We’ll all see
(We’ll even be, you and me)
mutant beings galore
(Oh, no, such gore!)
Five eyes, four arms, three lips – such charms
Will be ours, post haste,
By the light of the waste.

Radical Environmentalists (Florida Revision 2010)

Vicki — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:01:04 +0000

Oh, we’re radical environmentalists,
Yes, we’re radical environmentalists,
We like clean air and clean water,
And our beaches in good order. Oh,
We’re radical environmentalists!

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 Tenants

Ruth — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:00:56 +0000

Listen to the tenants
Listen to the tenants
What do they say?
What do they say?
Show us some humanity,
Show us some humanity
Right away, right away!

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!

We Wanna Save the Polar Bears

Ruth — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:02:48 +0000

See and hear the Grannies in this VIDEO we made for the National Park Service, singing out to save the planet.

We wanna save, we wanna save
We wanna save the polar bears
We wanna save, we wanna save
We wanna save the polar bears!

We’ve got ways that we can do it
we’ll make buildings more efficient
and we’ll Save the planet earth
From the basements to the roofing
Whether houses or apartments
We will save the planet earth

We’re gonna save We’re gonna save
We’re gonna save the planet earth
We’re gonna save, we’re gonna save
We’re gonna save the planet earth

We wanna save, we wanna save
We wanna save the polar bears
We wanna save, we wanna save
We wanna save the polar bears!

Sung on October 24, 2009 on a day of national action to promote the planet’s preservation in Menlo Park, California.

Give Them Shelter

Ruth — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:51:54 +0000

Enlisted in a war based on a presidential lie
prepared to serve their country even sacrifice their lives
they came to realize it was a useless evil war
they decided to resist

Chorus:
Have a heart and give them shelter
Have a heart and give them shelter
Have a heart and give them shelter
Help war resisters now!

O Canada you’re not our native land and not our home
But we admire how you welcome refugees who roam
Oh take our war resisters, treat them as you would your own
Help war resisters now!

Chorus

The Grannies span the border and we work in unity
With our Canadian sisters we want conscience to be free
Resisters from an evil war should live in liberty
Help war resisters now!

Chorus

We sang this at the Canadian Consulate in San Francisco on January 25, 2008.

Corporations Are Persons Now!

Vicki — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:44:45 +0000

Bribery, bribery now is the law of the land.
Cor-por-a-tions can do what once was banned.
The Supremes have set a precedent,
Now Wal-Mart can be president,
’Cause business has rights
And to their delight
Cor-por-a-tions are persons now!

Fair campaigning now is a thing of the past.
Those with money own the elections at last!
They’ll buy all the TV ad time,
And run their swiftboat ad slime.
They’ll offer no proof;
To hell with the truth!
Cor-por-a-tions are persons now!

When will the Democrats do what they said they’d do?
Say NO to health insurers and rich folks’ tax breaks, too?
Say NO to more war spending
And troop deployment unending.
It’s change they swore
They voted for,
Not cor-por-ate personhood.
         (So let’s) get out and fight
         With all of our might,
         And do what we know we should.