Say Their Names
Ten years ago, young Michael Brown,Eighteen years old when they shot him down.Then Corey Jones, and young Sean Bell,And Sandra Bland, we remember well....Tamir Rice was just a boy, Aiyana…
Our Grief is Real
The government’s spending our taxesOn god-awful weapons of warThat are killing some other mothers’ childrenLeft grieving on some distant shore.They’re buying up more ammunition,Missiles and bombers and drones,Bringing death and…
Pissed-Off Grannies and the ERA
Pissed-Off Grannies and the ERAWe raging grannies are here todayTo ask you about the ERA.So just listen and help us find outWhy we still don’t have it yet:In 1923, Alice…
One Human Family
We’re the Raging Grannies calling out from far and wide,Rising up together like a mighty ocean tide,To stop the wars and killing so we all can live and thrive,One human…
To Save the Earth
Well, the climate is a-changin’And the Earth is gettin’ hot,We’ve got drought and wild fires, and even more;We’ve got climate refugees,And the rising of the seas,But the worst threat of…
You’ve Got to Change!
You’ve got to change your evil ways, Congress,Or the people will stop voting for you. Remember you work for us, Congress,Not for the money that is backing you.You had us voting, donating, text-banking for you.You…
SB-202
Georgia peaches, rotted through, SB 202This bill don’t give a damn ‘bout you, SB 202With a “No vote” hereAnd a “Screw you” there“You ain’t white Ya don’t need rightsOnly for us…
Stop This Nomination (Amy Coney Barrett)
There was a time in days of old [days of old]When justice mattered, so we’re told [so we’re told](But now the) cor-por-a-tions own our Supreme Court,(So say good)bye to women’s…
Save Our Postal Service (Redux)
We’re the Raging Grannies and we’re raging here today’Cause someone’s messing with our mail and we’re not gonna play!Mail boxes and voting sorters being hauled away...That’s got to stop today!CHORUS: …
Save Our Postal Service
We’re the Raging Grannies and we’re raging here today,’Cause it’s time for working people to stand up and have their say.Cut the tax breaks for the rich and give the…
Now You’ve Pissed Off Grandma
You made us angry when you raised all those taxes on the poor;We were outraged when you authorized those pipelines;But you’ll really hear us roarIf you start another war.You’re a…
Raging for Social Security
We're ragin’ for Social Security. Hooray! Hooray!To protect us in our maturity. Hooray! Hooray!It’s a tax that we’ve already paid, to protect us in our golden days...We’ve paid the tax,…
Workplace Safety
CHORUS: We’re gonna rise, we’re gonna rise, For workplace safety now! We’re gonna rise, we’re gonna rise, For Fifteen and a Union now!Oh, we rise today in Durham…
Taken Away (Updated)
We once had a home where our family could comeTo laugh and to cry and to play, But along came the crash; we were left without cash,And our home was…
For the People Act
Have you heard the awful news?Voting rights are bein’ abused.The House has passed Bill HR 1But all their work is bein’ undone.This bill to keep our voting fairIsn’t going anywhere...For…
You’re Fired!
I open my morning newspaperTo see what the President’s done,And the horrors just keep piling higherAnd I feel like I’m coming undone.I read about children in cages,With no one to…
Affordable Housing
There are too many folks sleeping out in the street,Clutching their bundles through the cold or the heat;No place to call home and no blankets or bed...They’re lucky if some…
Never Again Hiroshima!
‘Twas long ago And far across the sea, So many died in an instant... Hiroshima! Children played Out in the summer sun Then burned in a living hell... Hiroshima! The…
Hiroshima Remembered
Hang down your head, U.S.A., Hang down your head in shame. Thousands died in Hiroshima And you’re the one to blame. Hang down your head, U.S.A., You devastated with a…
Come to Me (Close the Camps)
At tender age, left in a cage, Filled with terror and dread, Restless sleep, mothers weep, With no place to rest your head. Come to me, refugee, I…
Release the Report
CHORUS: Release the report and don’t sell us short; We have the right to know, you know. Our future is riding on what you are hiding, So show us the…
Stop Kavanaugh NOW!
NOTE: We sing the melody of the original verses only (not the chorus). There was a time in days of old [days of old] When justice mattered, so we’re told…
The Poor People’s Campaign: A Moral Revival
Written for the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival There’s something that’s troubling the Grannies, So we toss and we turn late at night, Wond’rin’ why there…
The War Economy & The Poor People’s Campaign
This is a re-write of one of my older songs. Originally written for Veterans For Peace as The War Economy, it now addresses the four prongs of the Poor People's…
Gun Reform – After Parkland
Gun Reform (After Parkland) Too many dying and families crying, We need to rein in the guns and do it Now! Now! Now! We’re gonna build a better future And…
This Plague of Guns – After Parkland
Allison, James, and sweet Daniel,Josephine and Avielle, Ana, Charlotte, Catherine, Grace, And Dylan, Emelie, and Chase. Now Chris and Luke, Alyssa, too, Carmen, Nicholas and Jack, Alaina, Cara, Jaime, Scott....…
The Year That’s Yet To Be
(A) Another year has come and gone As we gather here once more To sing for love and justice And a new deal for the poor. (B) And now we…
A Carol for Fair Taxation
We’ve come to [Raleigh] in cold weather,Grannies rising up in song, To tell Thom Tillis all together: This new tax bill is all wrong! The working poor will pay the…
Gerrymand’ring
[We sang this song on opening day of the North Carolina Legislature's Special Session, when its extreme right wing, which holds a veto-proof majority, once again failed to draw new…
Gun Reform
Too many dying and families crying,We need to rein in the guns and do it Now! Now! Now! We’re gonna build a better future And we’re gonna start right now.…