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?

CHORUS:
Holy Moley it’s our MON-ey
Holy Moley it’s our MON-ey
Holy Moley it’s our MON-ey
we paid when we were young!

And when each month a check arrives, we’re happy it’s been sent.
Enough to buy a BIT of food and maybe pay the rent.
And after that some folks are broke and left without a cent
But they go bravely on!

(REPEAT CHORUS)

We don’t know how you make it, as you live from day-to-day
With income fixed and prices up, there’s always more to pay.
So minding our arthritis, let us march and sing and say
Let’s all go bravely on!

(REPEAT CHORUS)

See VIDEO here of three social security songs including this one. Brief introduction of songs by SF Labor Chorus precedes the SF Raging Grannies “on stage”.

We want single-payer; it’’s what we deserve.
But Obama and Congress have both lost their nerve.
Adequate health care is a human right,
But who can afford it? The cost’’s out of sight!

We want single-payer; it’’s what we deserve.
But Obama and Congress have both lost their nerve.
Now we must buy coverage from insurance crooks,
Which just adds more profit to their bloated books!

We want single-payer; it’’s what we deserve.
But Obama and Congress have both lost their nerve.
We don’’t get health coverage ‘‘til we’’re sixty-five –
By then it’’s a wonder that we’’re still alive!

We want single-payer; it’’s what we deserve.
But Obama and Congress have both lost their nerve.
They have great health coverage paid for by the state.
Our kids deserve care, too, but they have to wait!

We want single-payer; it’’s what we deserve.
But Obama and Congress have both lost their nerve.
What they’’ve given us is not reform we’re due –
What they’’ve given us is a massive ‘“f- you’”!

Hail to Emperor Stephen Harper–
He who must be obeyed!
His troops marshal four-square behind him,
Tar sands tycoons, climate change deniers.
The military swell with pride.
They revel in killing the scumbags,
And in Canada’s identity in war!
The media won’t have access,
His Ministers are muzzled.
He has promised that we won’t know
Our country, when he is through.
Flip-flop and hypocrisy,
Democracy be damned!
To his iron rule
Kneel and submit:
Emperor Stephen so decrees!

Let us pull our business back
‘till they pull their punching ads.
There are lots of
other good cars out there.
Don’t support this violent tack.

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

Cheney and Bush spent 8 years gutting rules,
Working as industry shills
Big Oil has not been required to comply
Or guarantee against spills
Profits have won over safety and health
Fools chanted “Drill, baby, drill!”
Now is the time to make our voices roar
We loudly proclaim it: “Drill no more!”

How many wars must our armed forces wage?
How many nations destroy?
How many innocent lives will we take
Just to control the world’s oil?
How long will corporate executives be
Treated as if they were royal?
Now is the time to make our voices roar
We loudly proclaim it: “Drill no more!”

How many horrific oil spills before
“Drill, baby, drill” is reversed?
How many species will be made extinct
Before we care for the earth?
When will we switch to renewable power?
What is our planet’s life worth?
Now is the time to make our voices roar
We loudly proclaim it: “Drill no more!”

Let our clear blue oceans turn to black
Let the shore birds all get killed
For whenever there are accidents
We’ll just chant “Spill, baby, spill!”
We will kill the whales and porpoises
and the fishes in the seas
But who cares as long as we have gas
Just to drive our SUV’s
–

The USA’s addicted now to fossil fuel and oil,

So BP’s drillin’ off our shore and makes our blood just boil.

We warned them that the oil could spill and wash up on our soil…

Halliburton and BP – you suck!

          CHORUS:

         Take your friggin’ drillin’ rigs and move ‘em from our shore!

         Take your friggin’ drillin’ rigs and don’t come back no more!

         Take your friggin’ drillin’ rigs ‘cause we don’t want your oil!

         Halliburton and BP – you suck!

You bypass the inspections and ignore the warning signs;

You bribe your way to drilling rights and profit from your crimes.

Eleven workers now are dead and fish all swim in slime…

Halliburton and BP – you suck!

          CHORUS

You suck the oil from the sea and poison all the soil;

You suck the profits from the work while others sweat and toil;

You suck the lifeblood from us while you plunder and destroy…

Halliburton and BP – you suck!

          CHORUS