In The Hot Hot Heat Of The Desert
In the hot hot heat of the desertTell them we’ll be there No more deaths taking place in our desert Let us do our share Even one saved life is…
Violence
This is the most nonviolent tune I have ever heard. We sing it with men. When it comes to 'Women's stories,' we split off. They sing 'Men's stories,' at the…
Changing The Border Laws
Let them call us zealots Reconquistas too Let us hear them whisper About what we do Keep our faith in justice That these laws are bad Let us see them…
AIDS Is Us
AIDS, we used to sayWas a thing far away Affecting only strangers, (well, maybe Africa) And now we see It touches you and me AIDS is down the street and…
This Body’s MINE!
Tune: Polly Wolly Doodle Oh I have to march when the law steps in to try to tell my body what to do The choice is MINE! I can live…
Governmental Righteousness
How can we questionGovernment? When they tell us They're heavensent? God tells them what They have to do They simply pass That Word To me & you! Chorus: Wide &…
Undocumented Immigrants
Mor-al-lyIn-tolerable These deaths In the desert Preventable Inexcusable These deaths in our land Un-document-ed Immigrants Are still Human beings We will not and We cannot Let more death go on!
A Place For War Resisters
War Resisters have to leave their countryOr die out in some desert in I-raq Lies come down from the top While the U.S. plays world cop We want to hear…
Who Has The Right?
Men in suits and funny neckties Are legislating women’s rights USING illogic and emotion To say it has to do with life Defining what is meant by ‘baby’ Decreeing when…
Resisters in Canada
All the bright young things Called to go and kill Some went north instead Up to Canada Making a new life They’re with us today While the war goes on…
Green Berets Meet Flowered Hats
Try to have someone doing a martial drumming in the background while you sing. Stand up with a military posture and give a soldier's appearance. You can also do a…
Canada Was For Peace
You can find someone singing this on Youtube. Vancouver sang it to another tune as well and I don't know what that was. You can always call me up and…
Sit in at Recruiting Station
From Christmas Movie – Holiday Inn (Crosby & Danny Kaye) *Note – this tune is readily available at EVERY video store as well as on-line and it is well worth…
Montreal Massacre Names
This refers to the Montreal Massacre in 1989, a very important women's event in Canada. I think its important to try and remember victim's names, if at all possible, in…
The Rental Seed Folks
The rental seed folks Are lobbying hard Control the seed and You’ve got the whole yard Life patenting regimes Just some of their grand schemes A family farm is Just…
Seed Need
Who’d want to be a farmer With terminator seed? Single season seed? Plain old rental seed? Removing merit testing That’s more corporate greed We’re asking you to SAVE OUR SEED…
Seed Business
There’s NO business like seed business, like no business I know Such a little miracle a seed is Kernels can contain a 10 ft stalk Once they could be saved…
Farmers Rights
Let us give foreverThe right to save their seeds To our nation’s farmers Wherever they may be Right to reuse and select Right to sell & trade No changes to…
2nd Sit In At Recruiting Station
(From Holiday Inn, Christmas Movie, Bing & Kaye) We’ll follow our conscience Whatever it tells us to Even if we must say ‘Let me enlist today.’ We’re loving our grandkids…
Montreal Massacre
) Tune: Is There Anybody Here Who Loves My Jesus? (Old gospel) Verse 2 is trying to encourage the young women who join us to not to continue in abusive…
War Resisters in Canada
(songbook, Rise Up Singing, has chords) They've left behind the USA Refused to go the army way They could not carry guns nor kill They're seeking peace. They're coming still.…
Peace Songs
1) How is itwe can remember History's villians, every one? While the names of those who sought peace Come so seldom to the tongue? Lester Pearson, Jimmy Carter, Gandhi, Martin…
Older Woman
Let us celebrate the older woman nowTo the troubles in her life She will not bow Earning every wrinkle Striving to be strong Sharing laughter, friendship All the day is…
World’s Family
When we're raising our childrenWe want them to know They belong to our family Wherever they go And to a far larger family The great humantide As it ebbs and…
Local Government Screw Ups
(Brackets indicate where your local names may be added) There's a vulture on your windowsill There are storm clouds in the sky Just look around [Ontario] It's enough to make…
Everlasting Hells of Nursing Home Care
If extended care is in your futureA long-term way to get the help you need Find a way to put loss behind Independence swapped for peace of mind First investigate…
Work To End War
(songbook, Rise Up Singing, has chords) I'm going to work to end this war I'm tired of asking what it's for Our young folk coming home in bags Our media…
Privatize (Everything)
All they do the whole day thru is privatizeHospitals, schools, hydro too, privatize Public trust, used to mean We the people ran the scene Now public's gone private All 'cross…
Little Tiny Brains
This song caught passersby attention, comforted the striking teachers and in general, lightened the spirit of picketers while noting the reality of the cutbacks in education. It has been dearly…
Nuclear Waste Up North
Our north country's known as a land true & freeStill wild in some places, where creatures we see And there we find dying, the small baby loon And birds in…