Move Your Money
NOTE: Search also for Move your Money: DAPL posted 12216 Move all your money Out of the big banks today! Vote with your money ’Cause that’s the American way. We’ll…
No Rate Hike! No Way!
[I wrote this song for the Triangle Grannies to sing at a public hearing on a proposed rate hike of 18.6% by Duke Energy, our local power company (monopoly). Despite…
Song for the Occupations (No More!)
This is the day we say “no more,”No more bailouts and no more war, No more killin’ on foreign shores, Today we say no more! We’ve been workin’ for the…
Move to Amend
CHORUS Oh dear, what can the matter be? Big money is killing democracy; We’re fed up with the Fat Cat’s hypocrisy... We need to Move to Amend. The Supreme Court’s…
Hydrofracturing Sucks!
The USA’s addicted now to fossil fuel and oil,And hydrofracking’s on the rise; that makes our blood just boil. We know that fracking will destroy our water and our soil….…
Can You Hear Me Now, Verizon?
CHORUS: Can you hear me now, Verizon? This wake-up call’s for you. You’re raking in the billions And pay no taxes, too. And now you want your…
We Rage to End All War (Mother’s Day Version)
We Rage to End All War [Mother’s Day Version 2011](Tune: “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) New lyrics by Vicki Ryder We’re the Raging Grannies and we want you all to…
The Uterus Song
In late March 2011, Florida State Rep. Scott Randolph (D-Orlando) commented during a floor debate that while the GOP is loathe to regulate big business, it thinks nothing of regulating…
Were You Mad?
Based on an essay tentatively attributed to Thom Hartmann (?) Were you mad when all our taxes Went to fund a senseless war? Were you mad when they didn’t catch…
You Can’t Stomp on Me
I wrote this song after hearing about what happened to Lauren Valle, the young woman who had her head intentionally stomped on after being wrestled to the ground by a…
The War Economy
They tell us there’s no money for jobs or health care plans,But there’s always lots of money to make war in far off lands. We spend it all for war…
Oh, Give Us a Beach
[I wrote this song for another occasion, a couple of months ago, when we were raging against off-shore drilling. The original second verse said Oh, what will we do if…
Friggin’ Drillin’ Rigs
[I wrote this song this morning to sing at a protest here in South Florida, where our politicians are frantically trying to figure out what to do about the oil slick…
We’ve Always Paid Our Taxes (Tax Day 2010)
We’ve always paid our taxes,We’ve paid them right on time. We never, ever cheated; We coughed up every dime. But seven years of paying for These endless, bloody wars Has…
Radical Environmentalists (Florida Revision 2010)
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…
Corporations Are Persons Now!
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…
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Did you ever wonder why our health care is in doubt,Why rich folks have the Cadillac plans and poor folks go without, Why all the news that’s fit to print…
We Weep for Gaza
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…
Oh, George Dubya!
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…
Shoes, Shoes, Glorious Shoes
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…
Thanks Susan B. Anthony
There was a time not long ago, it’s sad but true, Women were kept from voting booths, they couldn’t get through. Women were governed by men in their lives; Gave…
Standin’ in the Need of Single Payer
It’s your father and your mother and the uninsuredStandin’ in the need of Single Payer. It’s your sister and your brother and the under-insured Standin’ in the need of Single…
Doo Dah Cuba!
We’re the Raging Grannies singin’ our song,Doo dah, doo dah, Our Cuba policy is wrong, It’s got to change today. Say “No” to the blockade! Let commerce go both ways.…
Cuba, Cuba
We’re Grannies and we’re really ragin’‘Cause this is the land of the free. So why can’t we travel to Cuba If this is a democracy? Chorus: Cu-ba, Cu-ba – we…
Lift the Blockade
CHORUS:Oh dear, what can the matter be? The U.S. is planning transition democracy, Meddling in countries where they hadn’t oughta be.... Keep your hands off Cuba now! They say that…
Bail Out the People (Revised 2009)
Follow the money, to see why we go off to war,Follow the money, it’s not freedom we’re fighting for, Follow the money, it leads to those corporate whores, They’ve gone…
I’ve Always Paid My Taxes
I’ve always paid my taxesI paid them right on time I never even cheated-- I coughed up every dime. But now I know my money goes Straight over to Iraq…
Happy Mother’s Day to You!
Here’s a song for all you mothers,And you sisters and you brothers, Aunts and uncles, all you others, Happy Mother’s Day to you! Mothers should not raise their sons To…
Knittin’ in Pink
[I wrote this song as I sat down to knit a few pink squares for the CodePink cozy that will be displayed on the White House fence this coming Mother's…
Bicycle Song
Daisy, Daisy, bicycling’s good for you!Hummers are crazy! Cars spew out CO2. For every mile we don’t drive, We help to make our Earth thrive. So take a hike, or…